Nexus HWR 12.6 War:
Saiyan Mountains
"Oi Jeice," Burter called out, flying towards his red-skinned comrade floating above a crater in the side of a mountain.
The shorter alien with a long mane of white hair turned to his comrade and fellow direct subordinate of High Commander Ginyu. Jeice looked over his tall blue comrade's right shoulder where Burter was carrying a sack of something. A closer inspection showed Jeice that there was blood dripping off the bottom of the bag. "What are you doing?" Jeice asked his partner as Burter flew up to him. The two of them had on black sleeveless armor over their torsos that had large shoulder spikes sticking off to their sides. They each wore black pants but Jeice's stopped at his lower thighs to reveal his muscular red legs, they each had on white gloves and boots, and the scouters over their faces each had tinted green lenses over them.
Burter swung the sack from over his back in front of him. "Collecting Saiyan heads," he told Jeice as he pulled one out.
Jeice lifted one of his white eyebrows, "And why are you doing that?"
Burter snickered and said in a higher-pitched tone than his partner, "The Rogue is giving out a hundred thousand dollars for every Saiyan head."
"A hundred thousand?" Jeice asked, lowering his eyebrow. "Bloody hell mate, we're rich and powerful already. What do you need a few hundred thousand more for?"
"Heyyy," Burter hissed with a smile, "if I'm going to be killing them anyway, why not make a million bucks or two on the side while I'm at it?" He laughed and Jeice scratched his chin considering the idea himself. Burter kept chuckling while looking down at the crater in the middle of a highly populated mountain they were flying over. Ground soldiers that had on similar armor to theirs were ravaging the towns and cities below that were connected by a system of roads. It looked like an entire kingdom set up on the slope of one of the tallest mountains that was not one of the central six Saiyan Mountains, just beneath the cloud layer that was almost touching Jeice and Burter's heads.
The only difference between the armor of the soldiers below and the two members of the Capital 50 above was a yellow symbol on the right side of their armor. Jeice and Burter each had a yellow circular symbol on the right side of their chests, and inside that circle was the number '50' though with a shape in the background that only the two of them and one other in the army had. The other was the High Commander, and the symbol inside the yellow circle but behind the '50' was the old symbol for the Ginyu Force in their own universe.
Jeice looked down towards the destruction in the kingdom below, and he said with a growing grin, "Guess I could use the extra spending cash, don't know if I'll fancy any of the product we gather ourselves." The red-skinned soldier added, "But I'll be making a few million without going after any Saiyans, once I sell our plunder." Jeice spotted two of his soldiers down below pointing their gloved-hands up towards an area of clustered terrified people. There were over fifty of them there, and there was a strong citizen in front of them trying to protect them in the face of terrible odds. Jeice brought a hand up to his ear and ordered, "Don't execute those prisoners."
The two men about to do just that looked up as they wondered if Jeice was talking to them. As soon as they looked away, the swordsman in front of them charged and drew his sword from his sheath too fast for the soldiers to see. The aliens of Frieza's old army who spun back in fear that they were about to get cut opened their eyes wide, because the man they were looking for above had appeared in front of them with two fingers blocking the sword swipe that would have killed them. "What are you bloody idiots doing, taking your eyes off the enemy?" Jeice lifted his knee into the shocked swordsman's gut, then as the man collapsed unconscious, Jeice took the sword and examined it in his hands. "Whoa-hoa," he said, and he ran his finger along the blade to see that despite him stopping it with his fingers covered in a veil of invisible energy, the blade was very sharp. "I'll be taking this," he said, then he leaned down and grabbed the fascinating sheath off the unconscious man's waist.
As he started lifting the sheath, a hand snapped up and grabbed him by the wrist. The swordsman who Jeice could have sworn he hit hard enough to knock out lifted his head and glared into Jeice's eyes furiously. "Don't you dare-" the man began with a terrifying expression, and then Jeice stabbed his sword down into his back.
"Do what?" Jeice asked, wondering if the man was going to finish his sentence. The other captives who thought this man could save them broke down into tears as that last burst of energy the man showed gave them hope, only for it to be squashed a second later. Jeice wriggled the sword in the man's back, and the guy trying hard to keep speaking could only cough up a bucket of blood that filled his lungs instead of air. He collapsed back to the ground, dying, and Jeice ripped the sword back out of his body.
In a town one away from the one Jeice just landed in, a six hundred pound figure covered in rough orange skin with small spikes sticking out of his arms stepped out of a bank. He had large wings sticking off his back that looked like those of a bat, and the sides of them closer to the front of his body were a lighter orange shade than the darker orange of the rest of his body. He wore a dark blue tunic that looked to barely fit over his shoulders, had an orange sash around his waist, and wore dark red pants to cover his lower body. The Rogue Ravager, Wings, stomped out of a bank with a crate in one hand that was full of heads, and a dozen bags in his other hand full of bills. As stupid as the fat demonic monster looked, Wings got the idea of robbing a bank in the middle of a the war in order to make even more money than he already was just by killing people. It worked doubly in his favor as over twenty people were hiding in the bank's secure vault for safety.
After Wings stepped out of the building, a huge explosion rocked him and he stumbled forward as the bank behind him burst into flames. He snapped his head up and saw two figures floating above the building they just destroyed. Wings yelled up at them, "Oi! Watch what you're doing! Huh?" He tilted his head to the side as the figures floating above him became less shadowed as the bright red light that flashed in the sky above them faded a bit.
The two who just destroyed the bank turned their heads to the figure who was not with them. They each had remarks for the blundering oaf who almost got caught in their attacks, when both Angila and Medamatcha realized who it was they were looking at. "Dorodabo?" Angila questioned in surprise,
"Wings?" Medamatcha exclaimed at the same time, using the nickname for their old comrade. Medamatcha was only three feet tall and covered in bumpy green skin with a face that looked like that of a toad's. He and Wings looked more like demons than Angila who had light-blue fair skin, long blond hair, and a handsome more-humanoid appearance. The only thing the three of them shared in common were the two horns sticking up from each of their foreheads.
"Hahaha!" Wings bellowed in a voice much deeper than the other two. He flapped his wings and shot up in the air much faster than most would think someone his size could move. "What are you two doing here? Haven't seen you at all since coming to this world!"
"Wait a second," Angila began, crossing his arms as he realized why it was Wings was there. "Are you one of those Ravagers?"
"Yeah," Wings replied with a fat grin plastered on his face. "Wait," he got a confused and hesitant look on his own, "you guys don't live around here do ya? Don't wanna be stealin' from friends," he shook around the bags of money in his right hand and laughed some more.
"Nah," Medamatcha said while bouncing around in place in midair. "The two of us are Capital 50!"
"Just, the two of you?" Wings asked, sounding a little nervous as he did.
"Don't worry," Angila said, a smirk coming to the handsome demon's face. "The King killed Lord Slug a long time ago. We've been working for him ever since."
"Ohh, hahaha, that's great!" Wings shouted. "Then we're all working together again!"
"It appears so," Angila agreed with a nod. He glanced over at Medamatcha though, and the two shared a dark look. Angila looked back to Wings who started going on about how he got his gig as a member of the Rogue Ravagers, and he internally grimaced as he nodded along. Unfortunately, there is a chance our orders will change, Wings. The King's plans are fluid, and at any time the Ravagers could become our enemies. Wings is too dumb to realize this possibility, though I am sure that is the reason we have barely seen any Ravagers around here. They attack their towns and we attack ours, but it would be foolish to get close to them when the Rogue could change his plans as well. I suppose it would be smart to stay with Wings though. The brute is strong but he would not be able to take myself and Medamatcha together, though he would try. If he tries, we get the upper hand of knowing the Ravagers have betrayed us, and if we get word to turn on them first, well at least I can make it quick for him.
"Come with us," Angila suggested to the fat demon before him. "We were just about to go 'ravage' a village down the slope a mile or two away."
"You know where the towns around here all are?" Wings asked in surprise.
"You don't?" Medamatcha asked. "We got reports days ago with the layout of these mountains in them. You didn't?"
"Oh, I remember something like that," Wings said, though from his tone the other two did not think that he did.
A few mountains away, the Legendary Assassin Hit floated above one of the taller mountains in the range, yet still far below the peaks of the six highest. "What a mess," he said, looking down the mountain towards a flattened out valley near the center of the range. The valley was surrounded on all sides by tall mountains which is why there could be such a dip so high up in elevation, but the valley looked gorgeous. As if the cold winds barely touched it, vegetation was vast and green. Snow covered the ground but not the roads connecting the dozen towns and cities inside. Those cities and towns had smoke coming off of them, but no more explosions were going off inside. Although there were no further attacks though, Hit could see the broken towers surrounding the valley that had been destroyed in the initial assault. "Even though they repelled your Ravagers, and your allies," Hit began, and the man he had lain down on the peak of the mountain behind him stared straight up while listening. "These people will not be spared."
Turles stared straight up with a flat lip and emotionless expression. He was missing his steel left arm, had red finger-marks on his neck, and was covered in his own blood. As he stared up at the sky, a sky that darkened into a deep purple as he watched it, he saw the creatures that came with that dark energy that filled the air. The creatures of Grimm descended from the sky, while Hit watched them rise over the bends of other mountains. "This is too much for them to take," Hit said, staring down and watching as the already exhausted warriors at the edges of their towns backed away from the hordes of beasts coming towards them. Giant black elephants with bone structures on the outsides of their bodies. Rock golems that stood fifty feet tall with white faces in the centers of them. Hit turned right and watched as the sky ripped open, revealing a black void through it. A beast with long gangly fingers tore the air apart to poke its own large white mask through. The giant black Hollows emerged, as dark blue and red swirls filled the bleak purple sky.
"What makes a man choose to bring this kind of despair on the world?" Hit questioned. He did not look back at the injured man laying behind him, but the question was directed at Turles. Hit looked to his left, down the slope of the mountain they were on, and he watched as Heartless appeared in small clusters near them. The small black Neo-Shadows stood on two feet, hunched over with their squiggly antennae sticking off their heads, their beady yellow eyes focused down on the closest town to the assassin.
"Who knows?" Turles replied, and he finally sat up. "RRghh," Turles ground his teeth, and he glanced down at his left side. Just turning his head to look at his side caused his neck to sear in pain though. He winced and reached up for it, and as he rubbed it he started coughing at a loss for breath. "But the battle," Turles continued, and Hit turned to see the Rogue lifting up to one knee, planting his right foot down hard on the snowy surface below him. "Is far, from over," Turles continued, and he brought himself up to his other foot. He stepped forward a few feet, so that he stood just below and to the right of where Hit floated. "Bardock's end approaches, and I will be the one to emerge victorious- ack- gah!" Turles clenched his right hand into a fist despite all the pain it put him in, and then the Rogue grinned.
"What are we going to do?" Hit questioned.
"I could pay you to kill Bardock," Turles said. Hit opened his mouth, but Turles muttered, "I'm joking." Hit froze, then he closed his mouth as Turles continued to grin while looking off the mountain. "I don't want to risk you, even if there's a chance that you my friend can take down the Saiyan King." Turles got a more serious look on his face, but a fire burned in his eyes as he said, "Save your strength in case Meruem turns on us after the he takes out Bardock." Turles started to frown, Not that I'm sure Meruem will win anymore.
"The Gohma arrived at the base the mountain," Olga reported as she flew up to two others higher up the northern slope of Mount Salad. The curvy woman wore an ornate dress of golden armor, golden boots, and gold leg guards that extended from those boots up to her knees. She had long, straight white hair that fell down to her waist behind her. Olga bent her head in respect as she approached the older-looking of the two men she flew towards, "They have already begun ravaging the towns below, even the ones still hidden, as their army stretches miles wide."
"Right on schedule," Sergei said. The effeminate man next to the older one had long purple hair and a flamboyant gold and purple set of armor to match. He turned next to him to the older man with slicked back white hair and a white beard that spiked out twice on either of his cheeks.
All three of them were over twelve thousand years old, but the oldest of them had rougher and tanner skin. His face was more chiseled and square-shaped than Sergei's, and he wore his golden armor underneath a long white cloak that matched his pants and his shirt below the tunic. He had on golden gauntlets like Olga, but his had sharp claws at the ends of them, visible as he stood with his arms crossed in front of him and his hands on his elbows. This man did not look down the mountain towards the Gohma army full of monsters and animals covered in the red lines of infection. He turned his head to the right and watched as a white blur sped around a mountain and came towards him.
The light-skinned man wearing the powerful black armor that many in the Capital 50 were wearing flew up to the three of them. His armor was pressed tight to his skin to reveal his large muscles, he had long earlobes dipping down almost to his shoulders on the sides of his head, and he had a long white ponytail. He flew straight up to the oldest of the three floating next to Mount Salad, and when he stopped he threw his arms up in the air diagonally on either side of him in a pose that Sergei clapped at the beauty of. "The other Guardians are already wreaking havoc on the mountains," High Commander Ginyu began to a man he just flew up next to. "Do your duty, Deus."
Deus gazed next to him at Ginyu, then he lifted his right hand and a lightning bolt flew out of the end of it. Ginyu followed the bolt into the distance, and then he leaned back as the wind hit him from the explosion a good distance from them. A dome of white lifted off another mountain where a small town on high alert had been preparing for attack. "It is a waste of my power, and my time," Deus began, "to destroy towns of innocents like that."
The woman with Deus frowned back at Ginyu, but the High Commander of the King's armies ignored both Deus' tone and his subordinate's attitudes. "It is not a waste, because hopefully you will draw the attention of powerful fighters other than the Saiyan King. We do not wish for the other Super Saiyan Gods to interfere with our King's fight!" Ginyu posed in a different way, throwing both his arms to the right side and kicking a leg out that way too. "Now, there is work to be done! Begin your assault in full!"
Deus nodded his head, and he responded, "If the King commands it, it shall be done." The sides of Deus' face glowed orange, and his entire body surrounded in a veil of lightning. Olga and Sergei backed away from him, and they kept going until they were each over thirty meters away from him. Deus uncrossed his arms and rose them up at his sides, shaking and covered in electricity. Mount Salad started to shake below the Guardian, and lightning bolts fell out of the sky like rain all over the mountainside. Ginyu looked around and his eyes got wider as the lightning did not stop spreading at the end of the slope of Mount Salad. There were no clouds in the swirling purple sky, but lightning sparked out of the air rapidly and in all directions.
Towns and cities and homes burst into flames as they were slammed repeatedly by lightning. Floods washed through these flaming settlements as the heat from the rain of lightning melted the snow covering dozens of mountains. Ravagers and Capital 50 and Saiyans and protectors of the mountains alike flew up in the air to avoid the avalanches and rock slides and floods. Ginyu turned back to Deus who he stared at through the man's veil of electricity, He is a force of nature. In the Capital 50, none are his equal. Even among the Guardians. The God of Speed is faster, and the General is the only one capable of protecting the Capital on his own while we are gone. But, Deus is the strongest of the immortals!
"My Lord, should we locate the Super Saiyan Gods for you?" Olga called to Deus through the lightning. Deus lowered his arms a little and the constant rain of lightning bolts slowed. He nodded his head, then as he opened his mouth to respond, something made the hair on the back of his neck stand on end.
Olga and Sergei saw his nod though, and though it looked like he had something to say, he did not add anything on top of that. The two of them bowed to their leader, then they spun and flew off. Deus' eyes narrowed and darted to his left side. He reached his left hand up, all the lightning stopped coming down from the sky at once. At that moment, a flood was washing down the side of Mount Salad and picking up more and more water the entire time. A wave was washing towards Deus and he was not floating high enough above the slope that it would not hit him. Ginyu lifted up in the air and turned in confusion as to what Deus was doing, but the strongest of the Five Guardians did not stop his attack for no reason. Ginyu looked closer into Deus' left hand, and he spotted a cluster of orange strings of energy wrapped around it. At first he thought Deus had caught the strings on their way to him, but a closer look showed the High Commander of the King's armies that the orange strings had wrapped completely around Deus' left fist. "What is this?" Ginyu questioned, and he started turning his head more to follow the strings back.
"I, can't move," Olga gasped out, though her lungs were being squeezed and it was hard to even make that out.
Sergei twitched and struggled on her side, but he could not move either. All he could do was turn his head partially to the side and follow the strings wrapped around his body back in the direction they were coming from. He tugged as hard as he could forward with his arms, but the strings wrapping him would not budge. "What are these things made of?" He questioned, and he looked closer through the yellow glow surrounding the strings to see what was inside them. "Oh my," he whispered, "how beautiful."
Inside of the golden glows was nothing at all. The threads holding the demigods in place were made completely of energy, and yet that energy was too strong for them to break through. Deus began as he looked behind him, "Who are you?"
The figure standing on the slope of Mount Salad leapt up in the air to avoid the flood coming down towards him. He was a shorter man than the others floating above the mountainside, and his skin that only showed on his head was blue with some purple dots on top of his hairless skull. He had pointed ears and a toned body as was visible through his clothes. He wore a tight black uniform with white gloves and boots, and his hands were lifted up with orange Energy Threads coming out the tips of every finger. His right arm was shaking even though it was the one only with strings connecting it to Deus, while his left arm stayed steady despite holding two enemies back at once. Still, it was only shaking despite Deus pulling back on his own left arm, and Deus' arm was not moving the way he wanted it to at all.
"It does not matter who he is!" Ginyu shouted, and he flew down towards the short figure below.
"Now Dyspo!" The short fighter named Kunshi yelled.
Dyspo appeared in front of High Commander Ginyu mid-kick, and his leg slammed into the side of what was once Isaac Netero's head and sent the man with a white ponytail flying down into the oncoming flood. The High Commander slammed into the front of the wave, and some of that wave splashed up into the air and got on the strings connecting Kunshi to Deus, as well as on Kunshi himself as he had not lifted very high yet when Ginyu attacked. Deus was the lowest of all though, and the water washed over him knee deep, before he said in a deep voice, "That is a terrible place to be, Ginyu." Out of Deus' body erupted such a powerful force of electricity that Dyspo had to reel back from twenty feet away in the air above. The water touching Deus' legs electrocuted, electrocuting everything uphill on Mount Salad that was soaked by that same flood, and the man who just went underneath the water.
The electrocution also worked on a man connected to Deus by his Energy Threads which the lightning passed through with ease into the attack's user and the others attached to him. Sergei let out a squeal and Olga shrieked in pain as Deus discharged his electricity into them. His attack was not precise, but it did do its job. Kunshi was in too much pain and had to release the threads wrapped around Deus' left fist, but as his strings of energy loosened, Deus snagged them in his left hand and clenched them hard in his grasp. He intensified the amount of electricity he was discharging to a point that Kunshi could not even keep his other strings around Sergei and Olga anymore, and the two of them gasped out in relief as the electrocution finally stopped.
"KUNSHI!" Dyspo shouted, but Deus' attack was not spread out for no reason. Dyspo glared into Deus' eyes as the Guardian turned back towards him, because there were dozens of lightning bolts sparking out between them every second to keep Dyspo away. Dyspo could see Deus thought his attack was well-thought-out and impregnable, and the purple rabbit and martial artist smirked. His body started to vibrate, and then he leaned forward so fast that his body seemed to stretch out. He moved right as a lightning bolt vanished, in the instant another was sparking to life out of Deus' back. Dyspo reached before that lightning bolt got any farther than a millimeter out of Deus' back though, and he slammed a fist into the white cloak of the Guardian and into his back.
Deus flew off the punch and spun fully around to face his opponent. He lifted his arms suddenly holding his nunchaku, Sakra, that sparked even more electricity than he did himself. He held one in each hand, and he held them in front of him to block Dyspo's next attack. Dyspo moved too fast though, and the rabbit ducked his nunchucks and elbowed up into Deus' gut, cracking his armor and hitting flesh. Deus' eyes narrowed in and he headbutted forward, but Dyspo pulled back first and slammed his left fist into the side of Dyspo's face, then he kicked the Guardian in the back as Deus uppercut where he just was.
"He's too fast for Lord Deus," Sergei said in shock, though he was barely able to follow the fight between the two of them as they darted around the mountains. Shockwaves rippled off and dislodged rocks and made any snow left after the earlier rain of lightning roll down the wet slopes in avalanches.
Olga looked closer, and her eyes grew wide as she saw Deus gasp in pain. All those hits are compiling! Lord Deus cannot be hurt by such weak attacks, but so many of them in rapid succession like this! "Your enemy is over here, villains," a low voice growled, and Olga and Sergei turned in almost as much shock at the sight of the blue-skinned ogre-looking man floating back up in front of them. He was covered in terrible burns dealt to him until Dyspo managed to find an opening on Deus, but although he was panting, Kunshi was up and ready to fight.
"There were not supposed to be fighters of this capability in these mountains other than the Super Saiyan Gods," Olga growled. The air around her became frigid, and snow formed from water droplets in the air near her. Kunshi felt the cold, but he showed no reaction to the temperature dropping several tens of degrees. Sergei shivered though, then he grinned sadistically and flew forward with a fist pulled back.
"Take this!" Kunshi yelled, and he lifted his hands again. Out from his gloved fingertips fired golden threads of energy, but Sergei was not going to let them catch him off guard this time. He spun around in midair, and he slashed at them and smacked them away with his hands. He curled his right hand into a fist as he neared Kunshi, then three more glowing strings shot towards him in between the two.
Sergei laughed at the attempt, and he slammed his fist straight into the strings in an attempt to push them away and hit the fighter behind them. As soon as Sergei's fist touched the threads however, his eyes grew wide and he whispered, "Wow," right before the strings exploded and blasted Sergei back with smoke coming off of him, blood splashing from his right elbow where an arm used to extend from.
"Sergei!" Olga yelled as he fell. "You idiot," she growled, then she rose up a sword she drew from her waist. Olga held her blade in her right hand, and with her left she pointed forward, creating fifty crystals of ice in the air above her. The ice crystals shot towards the smoke, and Kunshi flew up high to avoid the spears that ripped holes in his attack's smoke cloud at the speed they were going. Kunshi looked down as the ice spears passed beneath him, then he lifted his head and crossed his arms in front of his body, protecting himself from the woman he suddenly saw right in front of him. He's fast, but he didn't expect me to come this way. Olga thought, and she slammed her fist forward into the point where Kunshi's arms were crossed, then spun her sword around for the ogre's short chubby head.
"Evil will never prevail," Kunshi growled, and he snapped his head up to glare into Olga's eyes. "As long as there are those, who defend JUSTICE!" He uncrossed his arms in one fast motion, and ten strings he had readied in his clenched fists extended out and slashed the woman in front of him backwards.
Olga clenched her eyes shut in pain and intense fear as she expected to explode, but then her eyes shot open and she clenched her sword tighter. He couldn't make them explode that close to himself after all the damage he took from Lord Deus. Olga charged back at the short fighter again, His attacks are all far-ranged, I can- Kunshi could see what she was thinking, and he flew straight towards her and met her left fist with his own, creating a powerful shockwave in the air. Olga snarled and pushed harder into the fighter's fist, but Kunshi roared back and pressed his fist even harder into hers. "Your assault on these peaceful lands will not go unpunished!"
Kunshi brought back his other fist, while Olga slashed down with her sword. The woman with long white hair screamed, "I am a deity! No one punishes me!" Her blade slashed down into Kunshi's right fist, and then the shorter fighter's fist broke through her blade that shattered in Olga's shock. Kunshi's fist kept going and slammed her in the face, then his left fist finally won the battle against hers and pushed it aside.
Olga was off-balanced, head snapped to the side, her arms spread out so that the center of her body was exposed. "This is the end!" Kunshi yelled. He slammed his right fist forward and hit Olga in the chest so hard that she flew fifty meters away from him, then his right hand opened up and five glowing strings shot off his fingers. Olga's eyes grew wide. She knew these would be the exploding kind, but she was still flying backwards from his attack and did not recover fast enough to fly away yet. Olga screamed, and then a white hand clenched on Kunshi's right wrist. The strings stopped moving only forty of the fifty meters to Olga, and Kunshi snapped his head to the right in shock to stare at the man who just appeared next to him.
The man was soaked, and his white ponytail was still dripping water. He had burns on his body worse than Kunshi's, but he was not panting like the fighter in front of him. Instead, he was grinning maliciously while looking into Kunshi's shaky eyes. "Deus made the right call, as much as it pains me to say," Ginyu began. Crack! He snapped Kunshi's wrist backwards, breaking the bone with a bloodcurdling crack.
"AHHH!" Kunshi screamed in agony, reeling backwards while grabbing his right wrist with his left hand.
"You are a fool to take your eyes off your enemy," Ginyu said, and Kunshi looked up from his wrist that he just darted his eyes down to. Ginyu's right palm was already inches in front of his face and glowing purple. "HAA!" Ginyu shouted, putting a large amount of power into the attack despite the close range and the surprise he caught his opponent in. For him to defeat two of the Capital 50 was no small feat. Kunshi. I have defeated yet another worthy adversary! Now, to take on one even more worthy. Ginyu's gaze lifted from the body of the man falling in front of him, to the sky where his leaner and purpler partner screamed his name.
Deus saw Dyspo take his eyes off him, and the Guardian chose that moment to raise both hands and fire a full-powered blast at him. Dyspo's gaze was down on Kunshi's body, and a low guttural growl escaped the creature that did not look capable of making that sound. The purple-furred rabbit man surrounded in a dark purple aura that did not look to go with his "fighting-for-justice" persona. His yellow eyes grew darker and his look more intense, and the point blank attack Deus fired at him missed as Dyspo moved. So fast, Deus thought, as Dyspo vanished and only a trail of after-images showed Deus that the fighter had darted down towards Ginyu.
Ginyu himself saw this speed as Dyspo moved away from Deus' attack. That speed can only be matched, Ginyu thought, and his arms lifted up in front of his body.
Dyspo approached Ginyu at his maximum speed, but the man fighting for justice and now vengeance gained a look of shock on his face as Ginyu's hands moved. He could follow their speed, but to even move close to the same speed that he was going was something that very few had ever managed to do. Ginyu's hands moved so fast that Dyspo had yet to reach him, and Ginyu's palms pressed together in front of his chest. Super Maximum Light-Speed Mode cannot be beaten! How can his body move at this- Dyspo's thoughts were interrupted, and his dark yellow eyes widened at the sight of the the darkness that appeared behind Ginyu. It looks like, space, Dyspo thought, only for that darkness full of small twinkling lights to get replaced by a bright golden glow an instant later. The entire course of actions the two fighters made and the thoughts they each had during their clash occurred within a fraction of a second, but to them it felt much longer. Dyspo's eyes grew ever wider as something appeared behind Ginyu's golden glowing body. The thing that appeared behind Ginyu was hard for the rabbit man to describe, as he had never seen anything quite like it. It was over a hundred feet tall and gave off a natural yellow glow off of its shiny golden body. It had a hundred arms sticking off of its sides and back, arms so long that they had two elbows each to allow for better movement.
Isaac Netero was the most powerful human I ever faced in battle. If I were not previously wounded, I would have killed him before I was able to witness his abilities. When I decided to take this body for my own, I knew that I would be choosing to become human, but I did not need to become weak as well. In a strong body, in which I am knowledgable on the techniques, I can become the strongest in the world. In order to serve the King, I adapted to this powerful body and mastered its former master's techniques! King! Your greatness is unrivaled in all the multiverse! I swear, I will not allow this man to interfere with your plans! Ginyu chopped his right hand down, and one of the hundred hands of the giant golden statue behind his body slammed an open palm down as well.
Dyspo saw it coming, and the fighter dodged to the right as the hand was only meters above his head. Impossible! Ginyu thought. Dyspo changed directions and came back at him, but Ginyu brought his hands together again too fast for Dyspo to reach in time. Ginyu pulled his left hand off of his clapped-together hands this time, and he swiped it across the front of his body, making a different hand of the statue behind him slap across the front of him this time. Dyspo rolled in midair, his body barely making it over the top of the arm, then he dodged to the right, then slammed his left leg down on Ginyu's head. Ginyu flew down through the air but spun as he was falling and brought his hands up again, then he pushed up with his left palm and slammed into Dyspo who thought he would fall out of the air for longer than he did. Dyspo dodged right, but part of the giant golden hand hit him in the side, and at the speed he was moving, the hit sent him spinning away at thousands of miles per hour.
Olga stared up in the air in shock as both fighters had completely vanished from her vision. Flashes of gold and purple filled her sight like a strobe, and then Dyspo went spinning up through the air and Ginyu came crashing down on Mount Salad's north face.
Ginyu made a crater in the side of the mountain, and the man indented into it stared up through the dust with an angered look on his face. None but his Majesty and Savitar have ever dodged this attack. My power level mixed with this ability should be nigh unstoppable! He ground his teeth and the mountain beneath him trembled in his anger. Rocks lifted up from the crater and broke in the large golden aura surrounding him, and Ginyu floated off the slope and back into the air.
Dyspo stopped himself after spinning out, and he snapped his gaze back to Ginyu with a deep glare. Kunshi, I won't let it be in vain. "On my pride as a warrior for justice," Dyspo began, narrowing his darkened eyes even more into Ginyu-Netero's as the white-haired man lifted towards him. "I will defeat you!" Dyspo shouted, surrounding in a strong purple aura that grew larger as he let out a scream. He leaned forward and his body lagged behind him as he shifted through the air, while Ginyu rose his hands in a single movement faster than any other his body could make.
The fighters clashed in a flash of white and gold, and in the next five seconds they clashed two hundred more times. Ginyu's giant Nen creation smacked its hands into Dyspo as fast as the rabbit-man was moving, half the time. The other half, Dyspo was able to get around Ginyu's moves and slam him with powerful elbows, knees, kicks, and punches. Sergei staggered to his feet on the side of Mount Salad, grabbing under his right elbow with his left hand and physically sealing off his own wound where his right forearm used to be. He did not wince in pain, he barely noticed it at all as he stared up at the display of bright lights and powerful attacks in the sky. So, beautiful, the pale-faced man thought, and he started floating up again.
Olga floated fifty meters above Sergei, but she was lowering down to escape from the powerful gusts of wind that were happening so close together that it felt like one continuous torrent pushing against her. She had her arms crossed in front of her face, but she moved them apart a few inches so that she could see through the gap up higher into the air where another man floated. Lord Deus, what are you looking for? She wondered, as Deus was watching the fight closer than either her or Sergei could.
Ginyu's hands snapped up in front of his body, and then he smacked both hands down, making two of the long arms sticking out of the golden statue of Nen behind him to smack down as well. Dyspo sped up and up, even faster than what Ginyu had thought was his maximum speed. Too fast! Ginyu thought, as Dyspo evaded his Nen statue's attacks by going past the ends of the hands smacking towards him, getting between the two long arms of the statue on a perfect line towards Ginyu. The purple fighter knew he had Ginyu, Ginyu knew that he had been had, and Dyspo pulled his fist back farther than any of the other times. Ginyu's face was bloody and bruised, Dyspo's as well, but Dyspo grinned as Ginyu's face filled with panic. In that fraction of an instant that Ginyu's eyes looked panicked though, Dyspo saw the right corner of Ginyu's mouth curve up the smallest amount. Too late, Ginyu thought, and the rest of his mouth curled up. Dyspo did not have the time to wonder why Ginyu was smiling, because by the time he noticed Ginyu's lips curling up, he could already see the flash behind him.
The fighter with large purple rabbit ears was moving faster than the speed of light, so the flash behind him told him that something had already happened. He did not think that it was happening in that instant, but expected something to be traveling faster than that light. Dyspo's eyes darted to the sides, and that's when the corners of Ginyu's mouth finally lifted. Very good, Deus, Ginyu thought, while Dyspo went wide-eyed at the sight of the speeding beam of light coming for his back.
I'm faster- he thought, but his attention snapped back in front of him as he remembered there was something in his way stopping him from evading that blast coming straight for him. Deus had a perfect line of sight on him, and Dyspo realized the fatal error as his eyes darted right and left. On either side of him were the long golden arms that he shot through purposely in order to get to Ginyu in the fastest manner possible. He was directly in between the two, and Dyspo chose to continue his momentum and go straight forward. Hitting him will slow me down enough that I'll be hit in the back, but if I try to dodge I'll fail! The only thing I can do, is hit him and accept that we'll both be hit by the-
Ginyu's smirking mouth opened. He made sure to stay faster than the beam, but he slowed down without realizing when he started to think. Ginyu's mouth opened to reveal that the inside of his throat was glowing white. He had started building it up as soon as Dyspo sped up beneath his Nen statue's hands, when Ginyu realized that Dyspo would get through them and attack him straight on. It was his original backup plan that he did not expect to work with Dyspo's speed boost, but with the loss of that extra burst of speed, Ginyu had the opportunity to open his mouth.
Dyspo was still too fast however, and he brought his fist forward while the light was still in the back of Ginyu's mouth. His fist slammed into Ginyu's face, right in his jaw. Try opening your mouth now! Dyspo thought, then screamed, "AHH!" Ginyu was hit so hard that his body snapped backwards, and only part of Deus' light beam slammed into the front of his body as he fell, though the blood splashing from him was all coming from his mouth where a micro-explosion just went off inside after that devastating punch to his jaw. The beam that hit Dyspo got stronger after it hit the fighter, as Deus put more and more energy into the attack now that his enemy could not dodge.
The best chance of taking down this enemy effectively is to never let him move on his own again. Deus continued his beam with this thought in mind, deciding never to stop his attack. Lightning flew off the beam in every direction, and the sky darkened above the end of Deus's beam as it got larger and larger and flew into the eastern distance. Dyspo continued to scream as the beam got stronger, as it started tearing apart the black armor he had on and searing through his purple fur and skin. He flew miles, dozens of miles, out of the mountain range and farther, and the sky darkened and dropped lightning wherever the beam crossed. A trail of destruction fifty, sixty miles long dragged away from Mount Salad, and then the beam got even larger. For thousands of miles in every direction, supercharged storms rained lightning out of the sky.
Lord Deus, this is a little much. You do not need to use so much power for a fight like this, Olga thought, though watching in awe as she did.
Ginyu turned to follow the end of the beam as it flew away. "Wonderful," Ginyu said. He grinned, and then the High Commander of the King's armies lifted his gaze to the sky above. The mountain range below them continued to shake, and he could tell it was not only from Deus' attack. Where Ginyu looked in the sky, it was hard to imagine it was the same sky as an hour earlier. It was swirling so many dark colors in many different directions, but Ginyu focused on an area in that dark purple aura where a golden light shone from inside. Has it finally begun? My King, have you finally met the Saiyan King in battle?
Deus lowered his arms and let the beam fly off of him fully. He watched the back of it as it flew into the eastern horizon, a satisfied look on his face despite the deep frown that seemed to be permanently plastered to it. He glanced over at Ginyu who was watching the sky with a gleeful expression, and he looked up as well at the strange colors of the sky that were different depending on which part of the sky he looked to. Deus heard a gasp below him, and he glanced down to see Olga staring not up like he and Ginyu, but straight ahead of her, to the east. Deus saw Sergei look down from the beautiful sky as well, and he saw his right hand man's eyes grow wide and a nervous look to appear on his face for a second. Deus turned, and Ginyu did as well as he had a bad feeling in his gut.
The two of them turned, and they stared at a figure floating thirty meters in front of them. He came out of nowhere, the black uniform below his knees shredded, rags of what remained on his upper body flying away in a gust of wind that rushed by as they looked at him, leaving only the tight black armor over his waist and thighs. His purple fur was near blackened. His right ear was ripped halfway through horizontally in the middle so that it somewhat dangled, and his left ear did not look much better. His face was as burnt as the rest of his body, and his mouth was open as he panted over and over again. His breaths were deep and ragged, and each exhale made more blood in his mouth drip out.
How did he get back here so fast? Deus thought, as he had sent his enemy over a hundred miles away with his beam before releasing it, and it should have sent him even farther as it kept going.
"A stubborn one you are," Ginyu said, though he frowned deeply as he stared at his enemy. Olga watched from below near Sergei, and she thought as she saw the High Commander's face, Ginyu is angry. He must have thought the enemy was dead. She could see a huge welt on the right side of Ginyu's face, and the High Commander and leader of the Five Guardians had blood dripping down both corners of his frowning mouth down to his chin after the final punch Dyspo hit him with before getting sent flying into the distance. Ginyu had some burns on his body too from Deus' attack that knocked him aside and the one earlier. The reason he was frowning so deep was not the reason Olga thought however.
This body is so damaged, and that Dyspo's is so fast. To dodge even my fastest attacks- I bet he could even match Savitar! If I had his speed… What am I thinking?! This body is enough. This body is perfect! I have made this body my own, and I will not trade it so easily for a different model after spending so long mastering it! Ginyu ground his teeth and his lips curled apart to show how pissed he was. He narrowed his eyes at Dyspo, and this time the aura that surrounded him was a deep dark purple almost as dark as the sky above. Ginyu lifted his arms into a fighting stance, and the ground beneath him trembled under his power. "It is time for you to die," Ginyu said. "You are on your last legs already, my worthy opponent." Ginyu turned his body sideways, and then he released a powerful Ren from his body mixed with the blood-lust he now felt towards Dyspo. Isaac Netero's young body in its prime, his latent Nen powers, Ginyu's ability, and the blood-lust he felt in that moment, all of merged together to create a red core in his purple aura that extended in a single instant to cover everything for a mile around him.
Dyspo was exhausted. Even after escaping the end of Deus' attack with all his power, the thought to run never once entered his mind. He had flown back as fast as he could, with little regard for his own well-being. When Ginyu's bloodlust surrounded him though, and everything in his vision tinted red, he saw a demon appear around Ginyu's body that made every fiber of his body urge him to flee. Despite his instincts and body screaming at him though, Dyspo's mental fortitude held firm and his arms lifted in front of him, his burnt and bloody hands clenching into fists. This made Ginyu smile, but it only made the aura of bloodlust grow larger as he yelled, "Dyspo! I heard your comrade say your name! I will remember it, now remember mine as I send you to the afterlife! I am the High Commander of the King's armies, the leader of the Five Guardians and Capital 50, and an Honorary Royal Guard to the King himself…" Ginyu threw his arms up to either side of his head and opened his palms to the sky in one of his signature poses. "GINYU!" He shouted, then he brought his elbows down to his sides, curled his hands into fists, and yelled, "Now! DIE!"
Ginyu raced forward, made it three feet, and then he jolted to a stop and the huge aura he had built up vanished. All the hype and momentum he had built up with his speech vanished, and his eyes grew wide at the sight of the two people who suddenly floated between him and his prey. Dyspo's eyes grew wide, as though his vision was blurry, and that aura had his mind playing tricks on him, the movements of the people in front of him were so fast that he could not see it. Where did they, come from? Dyspo thought, his mind processing slowly the events happening in front of him.
"We were gonna let this guy finish his fight, seeing how worked up he was…"
"But if you're really Ginyu…"
Fasha and Shugesh smirked canine-filled smiles and the direction of the bloodlust switched. Ginyu felt it all directed towards him now, but he stood firm in midair and crossed his arms while glaring at the spiky haired Saiyans ahead of him. The two of them let their tails wave behind them, tails covered in golden fur that matched the color of their spiky hair and flaring auras. "Then I'm not standing aside and letting someone else kill you," Fasha continued. "I'm going to tear you apart-"
"I'm going to rip him apart," Shugesh said, and he pushed Fasha to the side and flew forward himself.
"Hey! I saw him first!" Fasha yelled. The two Super Saiyans turned to each other and snarled at the other one to back down, but neither of them would. After a few seconds, Fasha kept a cooler head and turned away from the fat man in front of her. "There is no time for this. We can't figure out who'll fight him first, but it's not a one on one anyway. I saw the way that bastard cut in to their fight," she darted her blue eyes towards the older man straight in front of her, as Shugesh floated more on line with Ginyu. "This isn't a one on one, they're going to work together."
"Are you suggesting-" Shugesh started with a deep frown.
"No," Fasha replied, and she smirked while Shugesh looked surprised, then he smirked as well. "I don't plan on trying to coordinate attacks with an idiot like you without Bardock or Tora, it wouldn't work. Instead, we'll just kill them all. You watch my back, I'll watch yours."
"Hah, my back won't need to be watched," Shugesh said, his voice deep and growling.
Deus surrounded in an aura of violent lightning more powerful than anything he had created the entire day. "I recognize them," Deus said to the man on his left.
"They are two of the Super Saiyan Gods," Ginyu agreed. "But I also recognize them," he continued, and he got louder as he did so that the Saiyans would hear him. "I remember when they were nothing but low level weaklings in the ranks of-" Both Shugesh and Fasha turned their hair red, their bodies surrounded in flaming red auras, and Ginyu's eyes grew wide as the two of them never let him finish his sentence. They roared and flew forward with furious snarling grins on their faces, and the planet shook beneath their might. Deus let out a roar and both sides of his face glowed bright orange, his entire body flashing white and lightning striking all over the nearby mountains. Ginyu rose his hands in an instant and the giant golden statue appeared behind him, and he chopped his hands forward to make two of them cut down towards his enemy.
Peeking over the top of a nearby mountain, a fat man with sharp spikes sticking out of his large pink body ducked lower so that more of his body would stay hidden. As he watched, or tried to watch, the start of the fight between Ginyu, Deus, and the Super Saiyan Gods, Dodoria had sweat all over his body and felt a strong urge to run far away and never look back. I didn't want to come, he thought, putting his hands on the sides of his head and shaking it around in fear. Why did it have to be them?! I heard about the Super Saiyan Gods, but when I got their pictures, why did it have to be the Saiyans that I killed?! Shugesh and Fasha were such weaklings when I massacred them! Oh please don't let them find me.
Out from the dark sky above two Saiyan Mountains descended a horde of Aragami. The disgusting monsters came in all different shapes and sizes. The Zygotes looked like white harpies that were half surrounded by a black monster on their backs. The monster form covered up half of their harpies' heads with its wide head covered in a single giant orange eye. Other Zygotes dropping from the sky were not white but red, yellow, or blue, with fire, lightning, and ice coming out of their mouths as they rushed down the mountainsides. Twelve foot tall Chi-Yous descended above the Zygotes, these ones larger and darker monsters with long arms connected by a series of blade-like appendages. Another Aragami lowered above the others, only one of its kind, yet it was the most deadly of all. The Aether had wide white wings that looked like a bird or an angel's, but speckled in bright pink spots. It looked angelic, but at the same time demonic with the two long steel legs of its body that ended in spikes, the eight red protrusions coming from the point where its wings connected, and from its head. The beast had silver protrusion out of its thin body that led into a round head made up of hundreds of thin silver wires sticking in every direction a foot or two. In the center of all those steel spikes was a single glowing pink circle with a black slit in the center. That eye glowed and the Aether's body covered in a white heavenly light, and then a pink beam of death shot down into a city below.
On top of a skyscraper in the city below the Aragami army, a man wearing black kevlar armor and a helmet with a clear visor over his face let out a groan at the sight of the beams shooting off of the Aether above. "Hey Spartan!" A voice called up from behind the black-clad man. John Diggle turned his head and saw a young Asian woman holding two rocket launchers in her hands. "Here!" Amy Wong shouted, tossing one of the RPGs to the hero.
"Good, now get yourself back inside," Spartan told the younger woman who helped him out on occasion, not that the safe Saiyan Mountains usually had any cause for him to adorn his superhero gear.
"No way!" Amy said, and she dropped down to a knee and steadied the weapon on her shoulder. A scope popped up on the top of the launcher and she said, "I wanna see what my babies can do." Amy fired, and John sighed but lifted his cannon as well and started firing green blasts up at the monsters. Amy grinned and yelled out in glee as the green blast hit a few of the monsters and disintegrated their whole bodies. "Normal weapons can't stop Aragami," Amy said, smirking even more at the idea of what her cannons could do.
"Well even these can't touch that big one," John snapped to the girl who was not focused enough. Amy looked back up, and she saw John focusing his attacks on the Aether at the top of the enemy army. Every attack that got close to it was stopped by a white forcefield that only appeared when those beams flew near it. Other forces around the city were firing beams up at the Aragami descending on them, with less effect than Amy's weapons were having, but no one was having any effect on the Aether. "We need a plan to- to-" John's voice faded off, and then a loud clank rang out over the rooftop as he had dropped his cannon to the floor.
"What?" Amy asked the man she had looked to when he started speaking. Through his visor, Amy could see John's dark-skinned face had gotten several shades whiter. She turned to look up as well, and she fell off her knee to her butt, dropping her weapon as well. "No," Amy said, shaking her head. "But that's, that's not fair," her voice was shaky and her eyes huge.
John took a step back in fear. All the beams stopped shooting up into the sky at the same moment. Something else was descending out of the dark-colored sky above. The reddish-blackish-purple haze that filled the sky was so thick that it acted like a cloud. Lightning came out of it all over the place, and this supercharged haze blocked the people below from seeing this beast until it was only a few hundred meters above them. Four of its front legs dropped first, each more than four hundred feet long, and its back four came down after that. "AArrGGRROOaaaaARRR," a bellowing roar came down from the sky, and then a wind slammed into everyone in the city, hardest into those on the tops of the roofs of skyscrapers that all the windows shattered on in the same instant.
"What, is that?" John whispered. Giant long appendages that looked neither like arms nor legs, maybe tentacles from what he could see, waved around in the air on the sides of the beast. Its wings lowered next, but even those John could not tell if what he was looking at were really wings. They looked covered in hair, not feathers, long giant hairs each as long as a ten-story tall building. Its face was less a face and more an open mouth on the end of a protrusion above the tops of the forward-most legs. Its body was hunched forward which was why the front legs came out of the sky first, so John and Amy could see up on its back where two massive spikes stuck out on either side so high into the haze that they lost sight of them. "Is that also, Aragami?" John asked.
BOOM! The Aether that the two took their eyes off of fired a beam of death into their skyscraper, blowing them up as well as the floor beneath their feet, and five stories beneath that. An explosion blasted off the rooftop but the skyscraper below kept standing, at least for a few more seconds. The giant Aragami descending from the sky came to a stop, and a blue glow formed inside its open mouth. If anything like this had happened normally, even if the power blockers on the outside of the city had failed and the Aragami found them, the Saiyans would have come to save them. The mountains were in chaos though. No one was coming to help them. Families held their loved ones close. Warriors and soldiers bowed their heads, and the Leviathan fired a beam into the city below that shattered the floor beneath it and made every building inside start to collapse. Those falling buildings were then thrown in every direction away from where the beam slammed down, their walls melting and tearing apart in the blue light and following heat explosion.
The bright blue light from the explosion flashed in the sky above a bunch of mountains near the city that just exploded. It was followed by an even darker tone of red to the sky as the fires raged all over the land that city once stood. Inside the town of Nibelheim, what was now a flattened area covered in scattered piles of debris, two figures faced each other without looking up at the darkened red sky above them. Smoke covered the air around the indent in the mountain slope that they were standing on. The smell was thick, the air was full of the scent of smoke and blood, and these two men glared forward into each other's eyes. Tora's cold blue ones of his Super Saiyan form were narrowed and dark as he stared into the glowing ones on his enemy surrounded in strong steel armor.
Savitar looked like a machine with glowing blue lines in between the cracks of his armor that made it look like the inside of his body was just a glowing blue energy. Tora could sense his energy though, the energy of a human inside that armor. Tora shot forward leaving an image of himself behind, but Savitar was not tricked by the slow technique. The self-proclaimed God of Speed sped forward and left lightning bolts in his path where Tora punched through. Tora punched his right fist though a lightning bolt, then he spun and kicked towards Savitar's back as the speedster ran. His leg just missed the back of the man's armor, and he slammed that leg on the ground before spinning and lifting his other leg to kick after him. Savitar ran just ahead of Tora's kicks, and then a portal opened up in front of him and he ran into it, appearing behind Tora and slamming his outstretched arm into the back of the Super Saiyan's head.
Savitar had ran so far and fast inside the Speed Force that he planned on taking off Tora's head with the clothesline blow. He slammed his steel arm into the Saiyan's head, and Tora shot off his feet, head-first into the ground. Blood splashed up from beneath his golden hair, getting his hair red while he lay on the floor with his face in the dirt. It was not Savitar's intended effect, but the speedster was satisfied with the results anyway. As long as he's dead, I did my- Savitar's thoughts froze and the speedster and Guardian of the Capital stared in silence at the man who curled his hands into the dirt at his sides. Tora's head snapped up, blood coming down his forehead and over his face, but a smile on that face that made him look like an animal. "What a hit," Tora said. Savitar could not tell from the tone whether the man meant as in the punch, or as in Tora felt like he was getting high from the powerful blow, like a 'hit' of some sort of drug. The look on his face made the speedster think it could go either way.
"You won't hit me again," Tora said, and he stood up before his enemy.
In a deep, mechanical voice, Savitar replied, "You are too slow, Super Saiyan." Savitar ran forward so fast that Tora would not be able to dodge, or at least Savitar thought the man would not be able to. Tora turned his body sideways and Savitar's fist flew right in front of the muscular man's face. As soon as Savitar moved, Tora reacted and was already dodging. Savitar looked left as he ran by, making sure not to slow down in order to avoid any counterattack. Tora did not strike back though, he just smirked as Savitar turned its head towards his own while running by.
Tora lifted his right hand as Savitar ran past, and he fired a yellow ball of energy at the speedster's back. Savitar ran to the left to avoid it, and another three balls of yellow light hit the ground at spots right behind his feet. Tora appeared in front of Savitar and the speedster came to a stop to change directions, and he was able to do so with the immense speed difference between the two. As soon as he stopped though, a yellow beam of light caught the corner of his vision and Savitar leaned its body backwards before the final attack Tora shot finally caught up to them. As Savitar leaned back, Tora flew forward. He flew right into the path of his own yellow beam, allowing himself to be hit by it. What a fool, hit by his own- Tora came through the smoke looking unfazed, and he slammed his right fist forward and cracked the armored chest plate to the speedster before him, before sending the faster enemy flying across the destroyed town.
Savitar hit the ground and rolled for a hundred feet before crashing into a pile of rubble that stopped him. He gasped in pain, but he stood up and looked forward with his glowing blue eyes as Tora walked towards him. That blast would have been strong enough to break through my armor, but he did not get a scratch from it. The difference in our speed is immeasurable, but this Saiyan…
"There was a race of men who were faster than me once, like you," Tora began as he walked down the destroyed road towards his enemy. He was grinning, while blood dripped down from his forehead over his mouth to his chin in long thick lines. Tora glared into Savitar's blue eyes and continued, "I was on a solo mission, because the planet was supposed to be easy to conquer, but the planet had twenty or so fighters who if Frieza had known about, he would have sent a much stronger force to the planet than just myself." Savitar did not know how to respond, as he had not known much about the Saiyans except their power. He had no idea what kind of men they were at all except for their demeanors, but what Tora was saying was chilling him.
"I could not beat those strong fighters at first," Tora admitted without breaking stride. "Half fought me while the other half evacuated nearby towns and cities, and then they would switch when they were tired to keep me always fighting, to make me tired. I almost died," he said, and then he let out some low laughter. "As the Oozaru, they would run off and hide until I transformed back. I didn't know how to beat them, and then, I found a way." Savitar was starting to feel nervous at the confident look on the Saiyan's face, and that anxiety increased as Tora added, "I murdered all of them, and then I killed all the people they were fighting to protect. I annihilated their entire race," Tora's golden hair waved in a gust of wind, and then it turned red and a bright red aura surrounded his body as his eyes changed to the color as well. "Just like I'm going to annihilate you," Tora finished.
Savitar ran forward and into a portal of blue light that appeared in front of him. He sprinted for thirty miles inside the Speed Force to pick up speed, to make his next punch ten times more powerful than the last one so that this time, it would take off his enemy's head. The next portal appeared in front of him and he sprinted through it, and then Savitar's eyes opened huge and it leaned its body to the right. It was too late though, and the yellow beam flying his way slammed into Savitar's side. The beam kept going after hitting Savitar, not slowed at all by the speedster's body. Savitar flew off the attack on his left side, and he tumbled right across the ground before rolling up to his knees.
Tora lowered the hand he pointed in the spot he knew Savitar would appear from their previous clashes. He had found the pattern in the speedster's moves. He knew how long it would take Savitar to appear, where he would show up, and Tora grinned down at the man on his knees in front of him. Tora grinned because Savitar's left arm was torn off, as was all the armor on its left side and part of its face, revealing a scarred face beneath that was covered in new blood now. Blood spurted out of Savitar's left shoulder socket, and Tora started laughing down at his enemy. "Haha, HAHA! So there is a man under the armor!" Savitar got up on shaky legs, blood splashing from his side and a dark look spreading on the face that Tora could now see. "Now," Tora said, and he lifted his right palm again with a yellow light growing on it, "how will you try to kill me next? Appear behind me? Run straight forward, because I might not expect it? What about dropping in from above, now that's a new one," Tora laughed and the yellow light on his palm grew more.
Savitar's dark look faded, and a different one replaced it that made Tora snarl. "Don't you dare-" Tora began, and he fired towards Savitar. A portal appeared on Savitar's right side though and he sprinted into it, Tora's yellow beam flying behind him on the other side.
No more portals appeared on the mountain. Tora glared around but like he thought from that look of fear that spread across his enemy's face in the second before he vanished, this time it was for good. The Saiyan's blood boiled, his face twisted in rage. Tora snapped his head back and roared, "COWARD!"
"Goku," Sora whispered, watching the small Saiyan boy as he shook the mountain below with his transformation into a Super Saiyan 2. Sora thought that Goku's spiked up hair and flaring aura with bolts of lightning coming out of it would not be as impressive in his child form, but it was as intimidating now as it was normally with the look of anger on Goku's face. Meruem's power made the mountains shake as well, and it made the sky such a color that Sora felt pure dread form deep inside him. The worst of the three however, was the little boy screaming in such intense rage, in such a voice that Sora never would have imagined it come from his body. Dash's skin did not look like it could hold together the bulking from his muscles, his blond hair was getting longer and waving above his head, and Sora could only see pure white inside the kid's eyes. What could make Dash look like, Sora caught a glimpse of something falling from the Ant King's hand.
Sora's fists clenched at his sides. A creature near him who was also looking towards the Ant King and his opponents caught a glimpse of the young man out the corners of his eyes. Shaiapouf kept watching the King, but his attention was drawn to this other figure for a moment. He was with the Saiyan boy. This one does not appear to be as strong as the other two. King! If I cannot aid you in your warm-up against those pests, then I will kill this boy for you!
Someone else already had the idea. Out from a snow drift on the side of the mountain next to him, Neferpitou flew into the air with both of her claws pulled back and a predator's look in her eyes. Pitou and Pouf made moves for the teenager with spiky brown hair at the same time. Pitou was injured from Goku's attack. He only brushed her aside, and yet it felt so powerful that she had almost been knocked out of the fight for good. The cat-like Chimera Ant with dark purple blood on its face started slashing, and Pouf pulled back a fist as he approached using bright colorful wings that extended from his back.
Sora turned his head, and it lagged slowly behind him leaving after-images in several directions that he turned. Pitou and Pouf were moving fast, but the boy's head turned towards them and both of them skid to complete stops at the look of Sora's glowing white eyes. The darkness spread out from the rings around his eyes to connect in the center of his face over his nose. "Rrrr," a deep, inhuman growl escaped the back of Sora's throat.
This boy! Pouf thought in anxious fear, pulling back and examining from afar. Pitou surrounded in a white aura and she changed her trajectory, flipping herself up and over Sora's head while pulling back her claws. Her heart was racing and all of her animal instincts were screaming at her not to attack.
"Who are you to have that power?" Pitou questioned as she stopped on Sora's other side. His head was still turned, but he turned it back to her now.
"We are in the middle of Organization territory," Pouf called over to his confused comrade. "There may be more to this place than we understand. This could be an agent for the Organization who-" Sora glanced over at the taller Chimera who was speaking, and then Sora shook his head around, and the blackness spreading on it stopped expanding. What is he doing? Pouf thought.
Control! The key is concentration and control! Get control of yourself! Sora's eyes shifted back. They stopped glowing and his bright blue irises reappeared in them as all the darkness faded from his face. Sora took a deep breath, then he kept his focus on the monsters in front of him instead of looking over to the other fight that would make him lose control again. He ignored the dead child he saw dropping from Meruem's hand, and he said to Pouf, "I do not work for the Organization." Sora brought his hands together in front of his waist, and the shaft of a three-foot long weapon appeared in it. The shaft was golden and curved at the hilt wider farther towards the shaft and thinner at the back, making the hilt look like a heart shape with an orange line in the center that Sora was holding onto with both hands. The Three Wishes' golden blade extended and got a darker shade near the end before it curved off into a single prong with another spike sticking off of that prong.
Pitou's eyes narrowed at the weapon, and Pouf hummed to himself at the sight of it. It's different from the one I have seen before, Pouf thought, but there is no doubt. That, is a Keyblade.
Not far from the three of them, three much stronger warriors were in the middle of a battle going on almost too fast for them too see. Without looking closely like they weren't, they could only see blurs out the corners of their eyes. Meruem faced off against the Super Saiyan child in front of him, and he was surprised by how good of a martial artist the young boy was. His stance, his moves, Meruem thought while he moved his hands around as fast as the boy was punching and kicking, blocking every single attack in the palms of his hands. He seems like a master of this art.
Goku punched one more time, but this time his pattern changed in mid-swing. Even the feint that was coming was actually just another fake attack, keeping it looking like he was still using that fighting style until the second he opened both hands and formed bright white lights on them. "Haaa!" Goku fired the energy forward.
Meruem did not get caught off guard. He wondered why the child's hands opened up, but his mental processing was too fast, and the instant the white lights formed in the boy's hands, he started to dodge. Meruem lifted up and curved his body over the top of the boy whose hair was pointed up in a single golden spike pushed back over his head. He looks so much like the Saiyan King, Meruem thought while he continued to fly over the boy. It could be his son, but I know of Bardock's son. Raditz is a man and looks nothing like this boy. Even if Turles was hiding information from me, why would he hide this boy? Why not mention him? Finally the balls of white light shot off of Goku's hands, and Goku's eyes grew wide as his opponent was no longer in front of him where he just fired into. Goku snapped his head up and brought up an elbow to block a fist flying down at him, while lifting his other hand with a still-open palm and a growing sphere of blue light on it.
The Ant King finished punching down, and Goku's counterattack never fired as Meruem's punch broke right past Goku's defenses and nailed the child in his face. Goku flew out of the air down into the mountain below, creating a long crack in it above and below where he landed. Meruem would have watched the boy fall, but another boy appeared in front of his face in the next instant. Meruem punched his other arm forward, and the kid's head turned right, allowing Meruem's arm to pass right in front of it. Meruem punched his other arm, and the kid turned his head left and watched the fist go by again, looking at it with his pure white eyes.
The boy punched both of his arms forward, and Meruem flew backwards so that the ends of the boy's fists just missed him. The wind from his punches increased Meruem's speed in his backing up, and the Ant King frowned inside that wind. His strength keeps increasing. I do not know what type of Power Blocker he was wearing to break through it like that, but whatever it was, it was not a good sign. The enemy child shot towards Meruem and let out another scream of rage, but as he punched forward, Meruem brought up his hand from his side that was pointed backwards with a growing ball of purple energy on it. He pressed the sphere right into the child's gut, and then he fired it at point blank while increasing his strength a little. Will that do it? Meruem wondered, while a smoking figure flew backwards and dropped out of the air. The boy's body flipped and flipped, and then he hit the ground on his feet and vanished.
Meruem's eyes darted back and forth, and then he saw a trail of snow flying up the mountain. He turned his head and followed the boy's path up to the point where he leapt off and flew towards Meruem, creating sonic booms through the air on his way and causing clouds to ripple out around him. It's not his strength though. Despite this rage, what is most interesting about this boy is his speed. If his brother had all those powers, then is speed his specialty? The rest of his strength could be obtained through training, but his speed seems unnatural, or more likely- natural. In his genes, Meruem lifted a hand to block the boy's punch that was coming, but Dash opened his hand after Meruem raised his own block. Meruem had only lifted his arm to block at the last second, and yet between that last second and when Dash's hand would have hit his own, Dash opened his fist into a palm. The boy high-fived Meruem, and then a white light shone between the cracks of their hands as Dash collected energy there. Meruem slid his hand down Dash's hand then brought it forward, dragging it along Dash's arm so that he could feel every twitch of the boy's muscles. Dash pointed his palm down to fire the attack, but Meruem grabbed him by the throat first and clenched.
Even in his enraged state, Dash could not handle the choking and his hands came back to his own neck. He grabbed at Meruem's hand to try and yank it off of him, but the hand did not budge an inch. Dash's hair waved higher above his head and his aura of white grew even larger, with long black wisps inside of it that matched swirls forming in his empty eyes. Meruem had seen something like this before. Gon Freecs, he thought, and he pushed forward with his strangling hand to get the child away from him. It was right in time too, as Dash's buffed-up right leg kicked forward and would have hit him in the chest. Just the force from the kick alone pushed Meruem back again, and the Ant King frowned at the child in front of him.
I do not plan on powering up until the Saiyan King appears before me. To do so now for this boy would be a mistake. He is too strong an enemy to be left alive, even if I did spare his life that time… Meruem thought about a certain mountain's peak that he floated in front of while looking down at a group of pirates, mages, and warriors. He recognized a boy in his peripheral vision from that day as well. On that mountain, I could feel the latent power within this boy. He looked so afraid that I knew it was untapped, but I did not kill him because I owed that Ben Tennyson my thanks. Now he has come to become a nuisance in my plans, but I will not allow my own action to cause my defeat here today. This child's interference can last no longer. Meruem's aura took on a shade of darker purple that showed the murderous intent coming into him.
Dash had snapped his head back and roared with both his hands on the sides of his head, screaming in what sounded like anger but was also full of pain.
A boy on the ground who got hit by an attack after Meruem spiked his power for an instant felt the change in Meruem's aura even if he could not feel the monster's ki. Goku lifted out of the crack in the mountain, he looked into the sky and watched as the boy, as fast as he was, could not keep up with the amount of feints that the Ant King was making. Meruem's fists collided with the boy's face. His legs lifted and kicked him in his sides, his knees raised and hit the kid in the chest. Dash stopped being able to defend himself. He could not find a moment to attack back with the constant onslaught, and his power stopped rising after a devastating punch into the side of his face that knocked two of his teeth out.
While Dash's head was still turning, blood and teeth flying out of his open mouth, Meruem put his right palm in front of the boy's bloody chest. His deformed body was too bulked up for his size, and now his larger muscles had dents in them and blood coming out of gashes all over them. Meruem did not say a word, there was no monologue, he just fired a blast meant to kill the child in front of him. Because the Ant King did not waste time talking, Goku almost didn't fly up in time to get in the way of the blast.
So strong! Goku thought while the ball of purple light exploded into his crossed arms. He flew backwards into Dash who was about to fall out of the air himself, and even Goku slamming into Dash at this point instead of Meruem's energy ball was still dangerous for the child. They flew backwards, burns forming all over Goku's forearms, then Goku lifted both of his hands and caught the leg kicking down for the head of the boy his back was pressing into.
Meruem's eyes widened a bit at the sight of Goku's hands around his right leg. He whipped his tail down instead, but Goku leaned his head left and avoided the thin point of it, only getting nicked by the sharpest part on his left cheek that made a gash form there. Goku managed to even pull his head the rest of the way before the thicker part of Meruem's tail would have hit him in the head. He just leaned far enough away from the tail, then he saw it start curving the other way as if to wrap around Dash's neck. Goku did not release the Chimera Ant's leg with his two hands, as it was all that was keeping Meruem from kicking again or using his fists considering the position they were in. Goku was pulling one direction with Meruem's leg too, to keep the King's other leg out of range of Dash while also trying to attack by throwing the monster out of the sky.
The Ant King realized all of these actions had purpose and was impressed once again by the young boy who seemed much too talented for his age, even though the King himself was very young. He leaned his body up with energy attacks forming on both of his palms to fire at the boy swinging him down, and then Meruem's face twisted in anger, and pain, as Goku chomped down on the tail curving around Dash's neck. Meruem's tail stopped moving, and Goku grinned that he finally caught the King off guard. He let go of the Ant King's leg and brought both hands up to the tail that he let go of with his teeth since it was so hard that he felt like he almost broke them by doing that. Goku turned his head to the monster while gripping the tail on either side of where he just bit, and as Dash continued to fall behind him, Goku made sure to lower out of the air at the same pace to prevent any attacks on the boy without him there to protect him. Goku started to swing Meruem by the tail, and Meruem fired the beams off of its hands. Goku could not dodge, because Meruem fired them after leaning up at the perfect angle that if Goku moved, they would hit the boy behind him. At the same time, Meruem's right arm started to get bumpy and red, and it punched upwards while bright yellow lines glowed through the whole thing.
Goku saw Meruem doing something to his arm, but the primary danger were the two beams about to hit him. He could not dodge, and while thinking about how to avoid taking too much damage from them, he also had to plan ahead for Meruem's back-up plan in case the child did manage to stop them. Goku had to decide to take the blasts head on to protect Dash, but while he was hit he made sure that he would not be hit by the next attack too, letting go of Meruem's tail. He let go after swinging hard enough that it sent Meruem flying away from him so that the King missed the Rage Explosion he was punching his right arm forward with. Goku did not get enough speed into the spin to send Meruem crashing into the mountain below, and the red coloring of Meruem's arm faded so that it turned back to its normal green color. "I have decided to kill that boy behind you," Meruem said to the kid facing him as the smoke around his body shifted away, or more precisely, the boy lowered out of the cloud to stay in front of the kid still dropping behind them. "Once I have made that decision, very little can stop me from taking that life."
If he gets even a single moment, Dash is dead. Goku made up his mind. It's now or never. Goku's arms pulled in to his sides, and he let out a scream that shook the entire mountain range below him. "HAAAAA!"
I should kill him now, Meruem thought while the boy's aura amplified, while wind shot off of his body so much more powerful than anything the enraged older brother was. Something stopped Meruem though, and the Ant King's heart rate sped up as he once again felt that confusion. This is already an Ascended Super Saiyan, Meruem thought, while staring closely at the boy in front of him who kept screaming louder and louder, while lowering so that Dash was right behind him, even if the bloodier boy was getting pushed a little back now by the Saiyan's powering-up.
Goku's entire body filled with pain, but he was not going to let it stop him this time. All the times he had tried it atop the tallest Saiyan Mountains, none of those times mattered to him right now. None of those times were a matter of life or death for him and his friends. Goku screamed, and his spiked-up hair started to push backwards, more golden spikes forming out of it as it did. His muscles bulked up, and his eyebrows were replaced by muscles on his forehead. Muscles grew on muscles, and the young Saiyan was looking more like the human behind him every second, except his transformation was appearing more natural. His hair spiked without waving around in the air in his aura, and his aura, though even larger than Dash's, was more stable, even if it was shaking the entire continent beneath him.
I have seen this before! Meruem thought. It was the reason he did not rush forward. I asked Turles about it, but the Rogue said there was no such thing as a level beyond an Ascended Super Saiyan that makes their hair long like that. I did not argue with him, because he truly did not know. I knew it was real though. I know because there was only one Saiyan who could have done it. He's the reason the Cooperative never went to Awul. Son Goku! Meruem watched as the child's hair got longer, longer, and his screams continued to get louder the whole time.
Sora looked down and the Royal Guards did too. All of them looked down at the form that they all recognized. Pitou and Pouf dropped their jaws and got sweat on their faces at the idea that that child was doing what they were seeing him do. Pitou was even sweatier than Pouf as she had faced him in battle earlier, and she no longer regretted running away at all. That regret started to come back though, as Pitou felt nervous at the lump of power that just added onto the boy's strength in a single second. This is no longer just a warm-up, she thought in fear.
Meruem leaned backwards as the kid snapped his eyes open and screamed one last time as loud as he could, "HHAAAAAAA!" Ripples of white came off of the boy's body and pulsed through the air, his muscles bulking to their full possible size, his hair now stretching below the back of the boy's waist. Pitou and Pouf crossed their arms in front of their bodies as the boy wearing Saiyan armor pushed them backwards even from over two hundred feet away.
"Protect!" Sora yelled out, and a bubble appeared behind Dash as the boy was thrown farther from Goku and finally neared the mountain he was falling towards. Everything was happening in such a short amount of time that Sora was having trouble keeping up, but he knew that Goku could not protect Dash and stop this monster at the same time. The Ant King was too powerful for that, and Sora still felt nervous even after Goku had risen his power to this next level that he had been trying so hard to reach as a child. Dash hit the ground painlessly, and Sora lowered his Keyblade before looking down like the Royal Guards in front of him. As long as he kept them in his vision, he felt he was able to look down safely.
Meruem saw the boy's weapon when Sora cast that magic on Dash, and at any other time he would have shifted his gaze to look at the boy with the Keyblade. This was not any other time though. Meruem's eyes were wide as he stared at the golden glowing fighter in front of him, as he pieced things together one by one at a rapid speed. The fast older brother and that Keybearer, they were together, and they both know this child. If this even is a child. If this is Son Goku's son, then it would make sense that he was traveling with them too. These people arrived on the continent recently, and their path indicates that they came from the west coast, most likely Dressrosa where Son Goku returned to the continent. Son Goku was not with them at any of the locations I knew them to be, but perhaps his son- except that his son was not with them either. No, the most likely options are that Son Goku arrived on the continent with this boy, and from Dressrosa they came to these mountains, or this boy, is Son Goku himself. Many things can change a man's appearance, but that transformation is something that only one man I know have has succeeded in attaining. His son could have had it too, but the resemblance between Son Goku and this child is even closer than that of father and son. I would have understood it if it was Bardock's son. This resemblance, is more uncanny. It looks like Son Goku in child form. Could it be him? Could this really be that man?
FD + 800
On a field in the middle of Aebrith, a dragon lowered to the ground with a few flaps of its giant wings. The massive black beast touched down and the floor beneath its claws turned black, all of the grass dying in a hundred meter radius around it. The black haired man standing on its back jumped off and landed in front of the giant dragon's head. A woman with long braids of red hair floated up in the air after him and lowered down behind him and to the right of where he stood. She had on a black witch's hat, a black sash over her stomach, breasts, and a long black cloth that fell in front of her thighs and in between her legs, tied around her waist by a thin black rope. Behind her flapped a black cape coming off of the back of the black sash over her breasts, the opposite as the white cloak of the man who floated up in the air not far from her and landed on the other side of their Lord's back. The old man with long white hair that fell so far down that the end of it was lost inside his hooded cloak landed and pressed his staff down on the floor beneath him. Eileen Belserion and August, Zeref's two strongest subordinates not including the dragon behind them, walked forward after their leader and High Lord. Zeref, or High Lord Spriggan walked forward towards a group of seven lowering to the field in front of him. The seven of them were flying when he arrived, but between them, the two of his Spriggan 12 behind him, and his dragon, only Zeref did not have the ability to freely float in midair like the rest of them did.
Those six figures lowered to the ground, three of them in front of Zeref and to his right, and the other four landing on his left. The three who landed on his right landed in a similar pattern that Zeref and his two Shield of Spriggans were walking in. Sousuke Aizen landed first, and the two other shinigami landed behind him. Zeref did not recognize the one with short white hair, a creepy smile, and thin eyes that were so squinted they looked closed. He did know the other man who had darker skin than his two fellow shinigami, long black dreadlocks, and who wore black wristbands that were visible thanks to his long white coat not having sleeves like the other two's did. The man Zeref did not recognize had sleeves so long that his hands did not stick out of them, and there was some dirt and soot on his white coat that made it look like he just came from somewhere interesting. Aizen himself had a thick strand of brown hair falling down over his face in its usual fashion with the rest of his hair pulled back. His brown eyes were sharp and his small grin hard to decipher. He greeted Zeref with a nod in the shorter man's direction, and Zeref merely smiled back before looking to the man on Aizen's back left. "A new ally?" Zeref asked.
"An old one," Gin replied with a small nod of his head towards the High Lord. "Ichimaru Gin," he greeted the High Lord, making sure to nod his head in a respectful manner. Ichimaru Gin had just introduced himself back in the sky to the third of the most powerful men now on this field, and he was still trying to hold back any sweat from forming on his face. I thought it would be safer to leave Metropolis, but this is not much better. Gin had greeted the Ant King, "Your Majesty," with a grin on his face when Aizen introduced him, only for the King to tell him to get dispose of that attitude. He had had the feeling that if he greeted the King in such a way again, it would be the last time he greeted anyone. He had nodded and bowed his head more with a serious look on his face when he had corrected himself.
The other four on the field were the Ant King and his Royal Guards. Meruem stood in front of the three who landed in a straight line behind him. He stepped forward after landing, then Aizen did the same, and Zeref kept walking until he was right in front of the other two with very little space between them. Ichimaru walked up behind Aizen's back, and Meruem did not look towards him but Gin felt like the King's eyes were daring him to keep coming. He spoke while he walked forward though, "I have brought news from Awul."
Aizen nodded to the men in front of him, and then he moved aside a little so that Gin could walk up into their circle. The Royal Guards sent glares towards the others who the leaders had left behind them. Kaname Tousen could not see them, as the man with long dreadlocks also had a white sash over his blind eyes. Eileen ignored them, while the dragon behind her turned its head their direction and bared its teeth, making the three Royal Guards stop what they were doing and look back towards the center. Eileen held a staff similar to August's, only the end of hers branched out like the horns of a buck unlike the round black end of August's staff. She made a motion to move, but August was already walking forward ahead of her so she held back.
"What news?" Zeref questioned. It must be important for Aizen to have called us here.
As soon as Zeref asked it, the ground beneath their feet trembled. None of them were big on coincidences, and the tremor made each of them more interested in what Ichimaru Gin was about to say. "In Metropolis, the largest city on Awul, a battle is currently taking place that will determine the ruler of the continent. If Lex Luthor wins, his plans do not stop with the coasts of Awul. He plans to take over the world."
"Can he do it?" Meruem questioned.
Gin hesitated, then he responded while making eye contact with the King, "I do not know. His power is…" The ground shook again, and then the sky high above them got a purple tint to it. A few of the Chimera Ants, shinigami, and others on the field glanced up at the ripple of purple that could be seen despite the events they were talking about occurring on the other side of the world. "Well," Gin said after they had glanced up at the glowing sky, "you get the idea."
"Why don't we see for ourselves?" Zeref questioned. He shifted to the side this time, and August continued walking forward from where he had stopped right behind his ruler. August stepped forward, and the old man with a long white beard tapped the bottom of his staff down on the blackened ground beneath him. The old man did not need to say an incantation, his magic just acted via his thoughts. Out from the top of his rounded staff appeared an image that grew less blurry in the air above their heads and between them. Ichimaru looked up in surprise as he saw what looked like a giant pile of rubble.
It's in even worse condition than when I left, Gin thought in amusement as he examined the city he had lived in for more than a year.
The magical image they were looking at focused on a single man. He was a hulking figure, much taller than any of them with muscles much bigger. He was bald, and he had scars over parts of his body that the High Lords and King looked at closely, realizing that those scars were in places that could have been because of surgical enhancements to his body. There were humans that large, but because they were uncommon, this thought came naturally to the men watching. "That is Lex Luthor," Gin said. "It seems that he will win." Around Luthor were the scattered forms of so many who Gin recognized. He saw both Ichigo Kurosaki and the young man Riku who faced him below the island of Metropolis before its fall. He saw a young boy whose poof-ball hat was split in half by his very blade in the same slash he used to kill that boy's master. He saw Mustang, the Arbiter, Tsuru and Momonga, and so many others from the government that he was a part of until earlier that day, lying unconscious or close to it on the ground around Luthor. Although it looked like Luthor had won, something was strange. None of them have the strength to move, Gin realized. He spotted one figure who had just moved lift their arm up, and then that arm dropped to the ground and they looked like all of the others.
The vision that August was showing them zoomed out, and everyone there was able to another man. Sound started to come out of the vision as it lost all blurriness to it, and the bald man they were looking at was laughing loudly. His laughter came out of the vision, while a red haired woman in cracked silver armor collapsed to the ground nearby. A green haired man wearing gold gloves fell flat on his face, and then a one-eyed woman with white hair fell on top of his body, both of them with their arms held out like the red-haired girl did. Those watching on a field on the opposite side of the world saw those people collapse, but they were not focusing on them. They were not even focusing on the man who started shouting at the top of his lungs at the one they were staring at, the one who was flashing gold light and tinting the entire vision in it. The man's golden aura was getting brighter as his eyes glowed pure white. His face was serious and his teeth clenched, while his muscles bulged all over his already huge figure. His hair was long, spiky, and blond, like nothing those watching had ever seen before.
"You think this will be enough to defeat me?! You think you can stop me now?! I am a GOD!" Luthor roared. A dome of white energy came out of his body and expanded so fast that it encompassed everything in the vision in the next second. The images August was creating for them shook, then the ground beneath their feet shook while in the vision, a brighter aura of white appeared inside that first aura and disintegrated anything and everything that it touched. The sky above them turned purple again, this time more clearly since the ripples were stronger. Those ripples continued to get thicker still, and the ground beneath them vibrated even more, as the white aura that Luthor created pressed into the golden one of the man in front of him.
"Who is that?" Aizen questioned the white haired man next to him, the younger-looking one since August's hair was the same color as Gin's.
Ichimaru Gin looked closer and his slits of eyes opened a little to reveal the icy blue orbs inside. "I believe," Gin began. The two figures screaming at each other and pressing their auras together shot forward and met fists in the middle of the vision, shaking it again. Gin got cut off as he had to steady himself, because not only the vision, but the entire world shook from that punch. They could see why too, as the ground beneath the punch dropped down into a massive crater. What remained of some buildings far in the background started collapsing, and giant fissures cut across swaths of the land those two men floated above while punching each other's fists. "If I had to guess," Ichimaru started again. "Then there is one man who comes to mind. He looks a little different, but if anyone was facing Luthor as his final opponent, it would be him."
All of the others in the small circle with Gin opened their eyes wide. Gin did not understand why they all did that, thinking that it was something they saw in the vision. Gin could hardly even follow what was going on in the vision anymore though, as the two men inside it had vanished and were colliding with each other several times a second in the sky. Their shockwaves were causing occasional ripples in the atmospheric boundary, they made the ground tremble beneath the leaders of the Cooperative's feet. It did not seem like something to be shocked at though, Gin did not think the men in front of him would be at least. He realized that it must have been what he said then, and he finished while watching for their reactions, "That man, is probably Son Goku."
"He is angry," Aizen said. He looked closer as the two stopped for a second, their legs collided together in the air and pushed against each other for a moment fighting for superiority. Aizen could see Goku's face, and he repeated, "That man is angry."
Aizen knows Goku? Is that the real reason he had me on Awul all this time? I reported on occasion about him, but Aizen did not act more interested at those times. He was hiding the true reason he stationed me there. Aizen, fears Son Goku. Aizen did not show the expression on his face, but the smile Aizen had was different from his usual one as he watched Son Goku's angered expression.
"Can that man defeat him?" Zeref questioned aloud. It was rhetorical since he knew none of them had the answer while watching a fight that looked so close.
Once again Gin was surprised by the tone of the High Lord's voice. He doesn't seem to think that it was possible. Do all of them, Gin gazed around, and the Ant King was looking in the most intensely of all. They all know Son Goku?
"There is only one reason the Cooperative never went to Awul," Aizen said to the shinigami next to him who was giving away his thoughts through his expression. Aizen did not tear his eyes away from the vision above, but he continued, "That is because of Son Goku."
Gin glanced around, but the other two seemed to be in agreement considering neither of them said anything. Meruem knew first hand how powerful Goku was after witnessing his abilities on the third day on Nexus. His life had never been the same after that day, after he saw for the first time a being who surpassed him completely. Right now, as Meruem watched Goku again, he could see that the Super Saiyan was so much stronger than the last time he watched him fight. Inside the vision, the Saiyan was losing ground against his opponent. That is him, Meruem thought, even though Goku was losing to the enemy before him. Even though Goku was clearly losing, he started lifting up in the air, power drawing from out of nowhere and making his aura larger than ever. Lex Luthor matched Goku's aura, and the two of them flew across from each other in the air with a small gap between them where their auras pushed into each other.
Luthor yelled as their auras fought for dominance, "How can you not see it? How do you not see the gaps in our powers? There are reserves of Tetsuo's energy that I have not dared to dip into yet." Zeref's eyebrows lifted up and August glanced next to him at his Lord who seemed interested in that last statement. Luthor continued shouting, his face twisting in rage, "No matter how strong you get, my power is limitless! Why don't you get it?! Why won't you just stay down like you're told?!"
"You're the one who doesn't get it Luthor!" The other man in the image shouted back, in a voice that sounded like Son Goku's despite his appearance not matching what any of the others had seen before. "You aren't used to your energy, and because of that you can't utilize it correctly." Meruem was certain now. They all were. Is this Son Goku's peak? Is this how strong Goku has become in the past two years? I suspect he is stronger than when we first met, but the gap between us is not as wide anymore. "What do you think that energy flaring around you is? That's your own strength leaking out, and because it's leaking that means you can't use it! You might have more energy than me, but it won't mean a thing if you can't use it!"
The two started fighting again, and now that everyone was sure of who they were watching, they watched with different perspectives. Aizen watched closely, his sharpened eyes solely focusing on the Super Saiyan in the vision. The only man who has ever defeated me, as impossible as I thought it to be. He even found a way to defeat my perfect hypnosis. A truly terrifying man he is. Son Goku, and his mercy.
Zeref glanced behind him towards the giant dragon he had under his control. Without Goku's assistance, the Day of the Cataclysm may have gone very differently. This newfound strength is much greater than the last time we met. What has it been, three months now? Zeref looked back at the man with long golden hair, and he smiled as Goku landed a heavy blow into the face of his enemy.
"This will be our final battle, Son Goku," Luthor declared. His enormous but wild aura shrank down in a more controlled way, going against what Goku had called out earlier. Those watching began to think that Goku's enemy would become too hard to beat now, but Goku's power chose that moment to rise even higher and flash around him.
"If Luthor wins," Aizen began, "what are his plans for-"
Meruem smirked, and he looked down from the vision. Aizen wondered what Meruem was doing, and the others looked towards the Ant King as well. "Luthor has already lost," Meruem claimed.
"LUTHOR!"
"GOKU!"
The ground shook worse than it had the entire time they were there, but Meruem turned from the vision at what seemed like the climax of the fight. Meruem could not sense those powers across the world thanks to the buoys that fully surrounded Aebrith. It was partially thanks to his own efforts that those buoys existed, but it was fully thanks to the existence of one of the men whose power was causing purple ripples to shoot across the sky that those buoys existed at all. The buoys existed in order to hide Aebrith from Son Goku. The Royal Guards turned as Meruem reached them, and they lifted up into the air with their King. "Let us resume our hunt," Meruem said, flying forward with his Royal Guards behind him, all three grinning like their leader whose face had a bloodthirsty expression on it. "That power is no longer beyond my reach. It will not be long now. Only a little further, and I will take my place. I will become the true, undisputed, incontestable, all-powerful King!"
Present
"I have only seen one Saiyan ever achieve that form," Meruem said, while looking closer at the boy in front of him. Is it his son? Or… "His name is Son Goku."
"That's me," Goku replied, though now he was wondering where this monster had seen him transform before, as a part of him still felt like it recognized Meruem. He did not remember seeing Meruem in Metropolis though, and the one other time he had heard that he had transformed on Nexus was a day that he had lost his memories of. The Super Saiyan 3 child wanted to know, but more importantly, he wanted to fight. Goku's fists rose in front of his body and he got into a fighting stance. "You've got some great technique," Goku said, while narrowing his intense eyes at the monster in front of him. "It's a shame you've chosen to use them for evil."
"I am evil?" The being in front of Goku questioned. "That is your opinion, but you are wrong," Meruem replied.
Goku's demeanor did not change. "Do you really believe what you are doing here is right?" Goku questioned. "What you just did, to JackJack," the boy continued, and his expression became even more serious. "That is something I cannot forgive."
"Then it is not a matter of good and evil," the Ant King responded. "You had a personal connection with that child, and now you wish for revenge." Goku did not respond for a few seconds, then the Ant King continued, "Do you not remember me, Son Goku?" Goku frowned at the question and looked closer at the monster in front of him with Dash's little brother's blood still on its hands, as well as its lips. It was clearly a monster to him, and yet at the same time so different.
"No," Goku replied simply. "Have we met?"
"Yes," Meruem answered. "In fact, you saved my life." Goku frowned deeper and glanced over towards where Dash's little brother's body lay, half-buried in snow on the slope of Mount Gine behind him. "Do not blame yourself for that," Meruem continued after seeing the glance of Goku's eyes. "There is no way to know how that boy may have lived if you had not saved me on the First Day. I, who brought stability and control to this turbulent continent, may have been responsible for that child living so long."
"I don't know what you're talking about," Goku said. "But you killed him. You didn't save him." Goku kept frowning while the figure in front of him smiled in a creepy way. His tail, his body, everything about him reminds me of those two. The two worst enemies Goku had ever fought in his own universe came to mind. Frieza, Cell, they were both monsters, but like this being they were smart. He brought control to this continent? In that case, this really is… "So you're the King?" Goku questioned.
"Yes." The Ant King replied. "But," he continued, and he grinned more. "I will allow you to call me by name, Meruem."
"Okay then, Meruem," Goku said, and his aura flared around his body. "I'm going to start fighting now."
"I suppose it is time for that fight you offered me," Meruem said, and Goku hesitated as something came to his mind when the King said that. "If you train really hard, I'd really like to face you in the future!" Meruem kept speaking while recognition filled Goku's face. "However, I will not be able to follow through on what I said that day." Goku looked confused like he could not remember that part as much, and Meruem repeated for him, "'I will look forward to the day when we can fight on equal terms.'" Meruem crossed his arms in front of his body, and he frowned as he went on, "Unfortunately, in my preparation to face the Saiyan King, I have long surpassed your power. What I sense from you now," Meruem said, and then the Power Blocker he was wearing shattered like Dash's had before him. Goku's head leaned back as the force him him, and the sky dropped five notches darker purple. Meruem's face twisted and his lips curled farther out to reveal a terrifying expression on his face, "It is nothing compared to the power of the King!"
Goku was getting pushed back by Meruem's aura. After a second he realized that it was not Meruem's ki itself, but an intense bloodlust taking the form of an aura. Even with that realization, sweat dripped down the sides of Goku's face, and his eyes were huge at the feeling of strength and malevolence from the being in front of him. This, is the King? As Goku lowered his crossed arms from in front of his face where he was blocking the pressure from Meruem's aura, Meruem spotted the boy's mouth curl up at the corners.
There it is, Meruem thought. The reason I have never before devoured the brain of a Saiyan. It was a hypothesis at first, but it has tested true twice in experiments now. In this situation, he must feel how much stronger than him I am. I am showing Son Goku my power, as I have always wanted to do, but he does not flee. In a hopeless scenario, he stands there, and he smiles. He enjoys this. Saiyans, thirst for battle like others thirst for compassion or love. Their competitive nature, their urge to fight an enemy at their strongest, it is something I never wished to become engrained in my DNA. As I am already, my curiosity and my endless search for more knowledge on powers and techniques hinder my capabilities as a fighter. I am able to ignore them in life-or-death situations, after I was careless in my previous life. If I devour a Saiyan's mind though, I do not know what effect it will have on me. When I take the Saiyan King's life, I will be making the decision that could make me indisputably the strongest being on this world, but it will also be a decision that could one day cost me my life.
He's stronger than me. He was preparing to fight dad again, but is this enough power to beat him? It does not feel like it. He could be holding some back since he's already high above me. The idea that someone was facing him at Super Saiyan 3 and still holding back made Goku frustrated, but at the same time it excited him and his lips curled up even more. I want to see him go all out! Goku shot forward, the ground beneath him shattering an instant later as it could not handle the take-off speed of the young-looking Saiyan man.
Meruem lifted his right hand and blocked the fist that flew forward from his opponent. Goku made no feints, and Meruem noticed this as the boy flew straight at him. After showing that I am stronger than him, he thinks I will not dodge in order to prove that it is unnecessary. Meruem's palm held in place until Goku's fist was about to slam into it, and then the Ant King bent that arm and stepped forward hard and to the left of Goku's out-stretching arm. Meruem's elbow lifted right in front of Goku's eyes, eyes that were wide in surprise as Goku thought Meruem was about to try and catch his fist that he put all of his power behind. Goku opened his fist while his face slammed into Meruem's elbow, but the child who was going to try and fire a ki blast was not expecting Meruem to start flying forward as soon as his face collided. Meruem lifted off the floor and flew forward, then down and implanted Goku into the floor with his elbow, before flying straight up to dodge the ki blast Goku had almost formed on his hand.
Goku clenched the forming blast into his fist, deciding against throwing it up at the King. He already has a counter for it, Goku thought, realizing it just by looking up into Meruem's eyes. "You're a great fighter," Goku began as he lifted back onto his feet. He looked into Meruem's light purple eyes, and the Super Saiyan 3 asked, "Why did you kill that child?"
Meruem stared straight down at the Saiyan below. Questioning my actions? What insolence. This is Son Goku though, I wish to know more about this anomaly. A Saiyan hero. "The boy had genetic traits that I found desirable," Meruem said plainly. Goku looked confused, and Meruem continued, "When I devour the brains of those with special powers, or those with large kis or who have unlocked their Nens, I get stronger. On occasion, their DNA will merge with my own and give me the special ability that I desire. That boy you called JackJack had powers I desired."
"So you killed him for them?" Goku asked, a disgusted look spreading across his face. "How could you do-"
"I am the King," Meruem cut Goku off. "That boy's life is insignificant in comparison to my own." Goku glowered harder at the Ant King, and Meruem continued, "All lives are insignificant compared to mine."
"Quite a God complex," Sora called down.
Pitou and Pouf dropped their jaws, and then the two of them charged at Sora screaming at him for his disrespect towards the King. "Uh oh," Sora said, snapping his head up and then raising another hand, forming another Keyblade on it to block both enemies at once. Pitou and Pouf leaned forward over the Keyblades that Sora blocked them with, and all three of their heads came close together over Sora's arms. Sora smirked as the two leaned closer, and then a bright white light enveloped his body and the two Royal Guards parried off in caution of what was coming.
When the light faded, Sora floated in the same place only his clothes were all white. He had a black Keyblade and a white one floating over his head. The two above were crossed, and he had another two Keyblades in his hands that he spun around a few times while his entire body shimmered sparkling lights. The Royal Guards could not let Sora's disrespect go, but Sora could see they were eying his weapons closer than most people would. "So, you know about these?" Sora questioned the creatures in front of him.
"It seems you are the one with a God complex," Meruem said without lifting his gaze. Sora heard the Ant King's words and darted his gaze down, and Meruem added, "Do you think yourself special because of those weapons? I have seen others with the Keyblades, but I am the only true King. There is only one of me, and that is not a God complex, that is the truth." Sora looked down at the top of Meruem's head, while Goku's fists clenched tighter at his sides. "You think the Keyblades can save Nexus? No, only the King can do that."
Sora's eyes grew wide, and the Royal Guards in front of him took his distraction to charge. Sora snapped his head up, and the two Keyblades above his head moved on their own to block the Chimera Ants. They each smacked their hands across their bodies though and parried Sora's Keyblades aside, so Sora had to lift his other two to block their follow up claw and punch. As he blocked those two though, Pouf and Pitou brought back forward the hands they had used to knock away his weapons the first time. Pouf hit Sora in the jaw, and Pitou slashed across the front of his chest. Sora flipped backwards over himself, and then the white Keyblade that had gotten knocked away flew by him and waved around, a green light coming off of it in a large sphere that surrounded his body.
Sora finished flipping, and the gashes across his chest had vanished along with any blood on him. The black Keyblade never flew back towards him though, and Sora called out, "Thunder!" All over the sky above his enemies, yellow lightning bolts dropped down and slammed into them. Sora rushed them when they got hit, and then a being flew up between him and them.
Goku's eyes grew huge from down below, because Meruem moved so fast that he could barely follow his movements. He shot his gaze up from the fading image of where Meruem just stood, and he started flying up after the Ant King, while yelling, "Sora!"
"PROTENDRA!" Sora yelled, right before Meruem punched forward.
Final Form Sora's strongest protect magic surrounded him in a semi-transparent dome. Meruem's fist slammed into it and the entire dome shattered. Sora reeled backwards in shock, and he waved his Keyblades forward sending slashes at the monster in front of him. Meruem took both slashes without flinching, then he leaned his body sideways and a boy punching up at him flew up in front of his body. Goku looked like his momentum would take him right past, but Goku had prepared for Meruem to dodge and did a front-flip, bringing his right heel down at the top of Meruem's head. As Meruem dodged his head and started flying towards Sora, his eyes darted down and he spotted a ball of blue light on Goku's connected hands after he had flipped. The boy had flipped so that his long golden hair was to the Ant King, and he twisted his body only after he had collected the energy he needed, revealing to Meruem the blue sphere of ki in his hands. "HAAA!" Goku yelled, pushing his hands forward and creating a beam of blue energy so powerful that Meruem's eyes snapped open wide.
Meruem's eyes opening wide was just his means of using telekinesis though, and Pitou and Pouf were sent flying out of the range of the attack. "KING!" The two yelled as he pushed them to safety.
Meruem turned and put both of his hands on the end of the beam that had already reached him. He caught Goku's Super Saiyan 3 Kamehameha, and he flew backwards through the air as it pressed into his palms. Meruem's back slammed into Mount Gine, and then the Ant King pressed his feet down on the solid ground behind him. He pushed back off the mountain, his purple aura growing around him. "Gravity!" Sora yelled from the opposite side of the beam as Meruem's Royal Guards. Goku was upset with Sora interfering, but he was not the only one. Goku's black sphere of intense gravity stopped Meruem from pushing back against the beam for a second, and Meruem turned to Sora and snapped his eyes open wide to glare at the boy.
Sora felt his entire body cover in sweat. He felt exhausted from the single harsh look, and then he was thrown backwards while the Final Form clothing and extra Keyblades vanished from him. Sora spun away at a hundred miles per hour, and Goku let out a yell and pushed his arms forward harder, a massive blue beam filling the sky between him and Meruem. He's holding it back, with only his hands! Goku did not see a beam firing from Meruem's hands against his Kamehameha Wave. The Ant King's hands were directly pressing against his energy wave, and as huge as it got, Meruem's dark purple aura just grew larger and the Ant King continued to hold it back.
King, Pouf thought as he saw their ruler's mouth curved into a smile. He's enjoying this too much. It is understandable considering the last time we saw Son Goku, their positions were flipped. The King knows that he is stronger now, but to hold such a blast back for so long. King, do not allow yourself to get worn out by the Super Saiyan when the Saiyan King has not yet arrived.
Pitou was not as concerned about her King's actions. She smiled at his smile, and then she flew up high into the air and shot over the beam Goku was hitting their King with. Her eyes glowed red and a bloodthirsty aura mixed with the King's and filled the sky. Where did you go?! Pitou thought, her claws sharpening and her eyes darting back and forth in search for the boy with spiky brown hair.
Meruem frowned inside his enormous aura. The blue beam pressing against him stopped getting larger. So this is his maximum without the aid of others. He was stronger in Metropolis. Meruem pushed his arms up and the end of the Kamehameha shot above the top of his head and into the sky. The beam flew so high up that it slammed into the barrier surrounding the planet, and as huge purple ripples shot out from the Saiyan Mountains to all corners of the world, Meruem raced towards his opponent.
Goku was breathing heavy pants after his Kamehameha was redirected. He's too powerful, Goku thought, right before Meruem appeared in front of his face. His arms had not even lowered and the beam was still flying up above him, and Goku's eyes opened wide at Meruem's appearance. He snapped his head right, and the tip of Meruem's tail narrowly missed his left eye. Goku already had a gash on the left side of his face from earlier, but this time the tail sliced off a chunk of Goku's spiky yellow hair. Goku eased back as Meruem followed up his tail swipe with a kick from the left. As he eased back though, Meruem's right hand lifted and the entire skin of the Ant King's arm was bubbling. It shifted from green to purple, and a hole opened at the end of it that showed red light glowing from inside his body.
A red beam fired out of Meruem's hand as Goku's small body just got far enough from the Ant King's passing foot. Goku tried leaning his body back, but the beam shot too low and scraped across his chest, tearing off the armor in front of it and burning through his skin. Goku let out a yell of pain, then he clenched his mouth shut hard as something his father told him came rushing back to his mind. Goku's head snapped up with a pissed-off glare, and he reached both hands up to catch Meruem's right elbow as the Ant King tried to capitalize on his energy blast. Goku could not use only one hand to stop the King's powerful blow, and even using two he almost got thrown out of the air by it. Goku held firm though, and then he spun his body around the Ant King's arm as Meruem extended it to try and punch Goku. As Goku spun around it, Meruem's other fist punched the direction he was lifting and nailed Goku in the right temple.
Goku let go of Meruem's elbow and was thrown so hard into the ground on the flat area where Azalea Town once stood that the floor of the indented section of mountain collapsed. Huge parts of the town started sliding down the rest of the slope, then as their speed increased, the chunks of ground bounced up and started rolling in a giant rock slide. Goku was in the middle of the avalanche/rock-slide, his mind boggled by that last punch. Meruem looked down into the sliding debris and could feel Goku's power still inside it. He survived, Meruem thought, half-expecting his punch to shatter the man's skull. He has a thick head.
The Super Saiyan 3 flew out of the snow with two beams of blue on his hands. He fired one up at Meruem, then he fired the second one. Meruem flew down and punched through the first beam, then he kicked through the second one and hit the man hiding on the other side of it. As his foot was lodged in Goku's chest though, the small child with blood coming down the left side of his face and down either corner of his mouth grinned. Goku brought up his right hand that he had fired the first blast with, to show he already had another beam in it. He lifted his left hand at the same time and grabbed onto Meruem's extended leg, preventing the Ant King from running as he jammed his other hand forward.
Meruem looked surprised as the beam flew towards his face, then his tail whipped around the side of his body and smacked down into the blast. The beam flew back into Goku's own surprised face, and the boy let go of Meruem's leg as he was thrown right back into the rock slide full of snow. Some chunks of houses had picked up so much snow that they were turning into huge snowballs that looked like they were racing each other down the mountain. Goku slammed into one of those giant snowballs and it exploded out in every direction- snow, wood, and stone. Meruem did not wait for Goku to re-arise this time though, and he felt out the Super Saiyan's ki and fired a ball of purple light down towards it.
Goku was rattled from his own blast. His face was covered in burns from it, and the snow around him made the injury even worse as switching from extreme heat to icy cold was a good way to send him into shock. Goku was used to sudden changes in temperature though thanks to his training in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber. He did not go into shock, but he did scream in pain as a ball of ki shredded through the debris above him and collided with his body. That attack was followed by three others, and even as Goku tried to fly under the snow, Meruem attacked exactly where he was flying to every time.
One of the purple blasts was about to hit Goku, but he shot straight up instead of continuing his path to where Meruem sent the next attack flying. "Hiiyaaa!" Goku waved his right hand forward and five beams of yellow light flew up at Meruem who dodged to the right and fired another two blasts of purple light down himself. Goku flew up and turned his body sideways to get between the attacks, then he kept spinning and rose his leg to nail Meruem in the face with. Meruem floated in place until the leg was inches from his face, and then he leaned his head back and Goku's foot went inches in front of it. The force that came off of Goku's leg was so strong that it tore all the snow behind Meruem on the slope of Mount Gine and a good portion of rock beneath it apart, but Meruem did not even float backwards in the air more than he wanted to.
Goku's eyes widened twice their size. Meruem's speed, his strength, it was beyond what he could imagine. It's like fighting Luthor, except Meruem knows how to fight! He's keeping up with every move I make! Mereum was not just keeping up with Goku though. The faster fighter reached forward and grabbed Goku around the top of his skull, and he squeezed. Goku let out a scream and reached up to grab Meruem's arm that was crushing his skull, but as soon as his arms lifted up high enough that they could no longer block, Meruem slammed both of his knees up into Goku's gut and made the Super Saiyan 3 spit up with a look of agony on his face.
The child warrior kept lifting his arms, even as Meruem pulled his legs back and then kneed up again and again. Goku grabbed Meruem by the right wrist, and then Meruem jammed his tail forward and shoved the sharp end for Goku's neck. Goku saw it coming and his lifted arms squeezed in at the same time, catching the tip of Meruem's tail between his forearms. The end of the tip was already through Goku's arms though by the time he stopped it, and Meruem put enough force into the attack that his tail kept easing forward even with Goku trying to hold it back. He was pushing up on Meruem's wrist for the hand that was crushing his skull even stronger than before, but he could not put more strength into it and risk letting Meruem's tail impale him through the throat. Meruem continued kneeing up, and he kicked aside Goku's legs that the Saiyan was now trying to use to protect himself below as well.
How do I get out?! Goku was looking for an opening, looking for a flaw in Meruem's attack. The King was relentless though, and his form was flawless. Meruem's left hand was free at his side, and the Ant King was watching Goku's eyes to see what the Saiyan would try next.
Meruem saw a dozen ideas flash through Goku's eyes from their positioning along the two of their bodies. Every time Goku looked somewhere though, Meruem made a counter plan for it. "Experience only goes so far against a being of superior intellect," Meruem said, while releasing the top of Goku's head with his right hand. Goku's eyes shot open wide as he was not expecting Meruem to let go, as it allowed his arms to focus fully on Meruem's tail now and prevent it from impaling him. As soon as his hands moved down for the tail though, both of Meruem's hands snapped forward at the same time and hit Goku on opposite sides of his face. The black eyes were instantaneous, and the punches tore through skin as well making bad head wounds that bled all over his face.
The only positive was that Meruem hit Goku so hard that he flew out of range of Meruem's tail. Goku shot backwards with blood splashing from his face, his vision blurry from the punches that landed around his eye sockets. That positive would not last long though, and Goku knew he had to do something. He could not figure out what that something was though. I can't use Kaioken, Goku thought as he righted himself and stared forward through bloody eyes and a swollen face around it that made the corners of his vision blurry and blacked-out. Super Saiyan 3 almost tore apart this body. Kaioken on top of that would tear me apart, even a times two. The Spirit Bomb would take too long, and there's no one to hold him off while I charge it. I'm running out of time. Any less than this- Goku cut his own thoughts off, even this, even this strong, it's too much.
It took Goku a few seconds to notice, and it took him seeing Meruem's gaze to realize it. Oh, nevermind, he thought. Goku glanced to his own side, but his swollen face around his eyes made it difficult to see the sides of his head where his long blond hair was shrinking back. He ground his teeth and tried pushing out power to keep his most powerful state going, but there was nothing he could do.
"Two years and five months," Meruem said and started flying forward. "I have waited for this fight for a long time. If it were any other day, I would have fought more on your energy level. I would have liked to see how we matched up in a fair fight." Meruem's own giant aura shrank down, but it was still stronger than what Goku's was at now that his hair was in only a single blond spike over his head. "This is not the way I wanted our-" There was a look of lamentation on Meruem's face as his tail waved around his side. He looked displeased that this was the way their fight would end, and as soon as that look became visible, a figure appeared on the Ant King's left side with his arm extended forward. Meruem's head snapped to the other side and purple blood splashed out of his mouth, and then the Chimera Ant shot like a rocket out of the sky and into the ground half a mile below, causing the planet around him to shake from the collision.
"Rrgg," Bardock growled. He glared at the end of his right fist, It didn't take his head off. He is stronger now. The Super Saiyan God's red hair turned back to blond and shot up in a single spike over his head. Bardock had a gash on his left cheek similar to his son's, but other than that the Saiyan King looked much better for the wear than Goku did. Bardock snarled as he stared down towards the hole in the mountains where his enemy had vanished into the planet. At the last second his eyes darted over. Did he tense? Did he protect himself? If I had chose another moment, I could have finished him. If I had waited for his guard to be down even more, for the moment he killed… Bardock ground his teeth, There is no point thinking on hypotheticals. The ant must die for what he has done. That is the only outcome today.
"Fa-ther," Goku said, staring at the back of the glowing gold Saiyan King in surprise.
Meruem flew out of the ground down below with a welt on the left side of his face, some purple blood dripping down the left corner of his mouth, and an expression of cold fury. He did not look enraged, he did not look to snap. Meruem stared up at Bardock with the eyes of a monster. Bardock could see it in the Ant King's gaze. He wants me dead. His entire aura is screaming it, he can't hide it.
"I never expected you to-" Meruem began, then cursed to himself and ground his own teeth in anger, making him look like even more of a monster with the ravenous look on his face now including bared-teeth to top off the look. "Attacking me while I'm distracted, what of your Saiyan pride?" Meruem mocked, though in his voice was the questioning tone that showed he was as curious as he was furious about it.
Bardock's teeth clenched harder. If any of his people had seen what he just did, it would have discredited him as their King. The right corner of his lip curled up after a second though. "Something even you failed to see coming?" Bardock asked sarcastically. "The mighty King, caught off guard. Aren't you embarrassed to say that aloud? What would your pathetic little peons think?" Bardock smirked even more as he mentioned them, and Meruem's eyes darted to his side. "Don't worry, Tora will take good care of your Royal Guards."
As soon as Bardock mentioned his best friend's name, he shot forward. Meruem's mental processing was beyond anything Bardock had seen before, so he knew that as soon as he mentioned Tora's name, Meruem would react to it. He figured that Turles would have told Meruem who the Super Saiyan Gods were, and he knew that the only thing Meruem truly cared for other than himself were the three Royal Guards of his who Bardock first saw him with. Meruem thought about his Royal Guards going up against Tora, and Bardock rushed him with his right fist pulled back. Meruem was fast though and blocked the punch, but the hit only had half of Bardock's strength in it. His left leg that was flying around had more, and Meruem's tail lifted up to block when the Ant King saw it coming out his peripheral vision.
Bardock followed up with a knee up towards Meruem's chest when the Ant King blocked his first two moves. He was nonstop, his moves continuous. Bardock pushed forward and Meruem got pushed back. Even after Bardock caught Meruem by surprise, Meruem could not tell if Bardock said those things solely to catch him off guard, or if they were true and Bardock was just using them to his advantage. Either way, Meruem had the feeling in the back of his mind that his Royal Guards were in a great deal of danger, a fact just distracting enough that he did not catch the third feint of Bardock's right fist to realize that the left fist he had pushed away at first was coming back at him. The left hand had never re-clenched so Meruem thought it was just coming back to block his kick at first, but Bardock had lifted his left leg to block Meruem's kick, and his open left hand came more at their head-levels, smacking Meruem so hard across the right side of his face that another welt appeared on it, though not as large as the one from Bardock's initial surprise attack.
The smack was still hard enough to make Meruem's head snap to the side though, and Bardock followed up by spinning and slamming a kick into the Ant King's right side. Meruem's body bent over the leg, and then Bardock followed through and shot Meruem into the distance like a rocket.
Goku watched his father in awe the entire interaction. It occurred in only a few seconds, and Goku could not have lowered his bottom lip further. He's just a regular Super Saiyan, but he's faster than I was at Super Saiyan 3. He looks like he just came from a fight, but he does not look tired at all. Is he? Is he just pretending to be alright? Is he doing that thing where he does not let his opponent know that he's injured, or tired at all? Is he mixing his God ki into his regular Super Saiyan form to make him that strong? Or did he really distract Meruem that much with what he said that the King's reactions were not as fast? "Wow," Goku just whispered after a few seconds.
"Kakarott," Bardock began without turning back to his son. He would not make a mistake during this fight. He could not if he intended to survive. "Get Sora and go to a different part of the mountains."
"Kakarott?" Meruem questioned, appearing back in front of Bardock too fast for Goku to follow. Bardock did not seem surprised though, having kept his eyes pointed forward the entire time so that he could see his opponent coming. Meruem looked straight into Bardock's eyes, and he continued, "That boy is Son Goku."
"Not on these mountains he's not," Bardock replied.
Meruem saw something in Bardock's eyes as the man said it. The annoyance at Meruem's statement, the intonation in his voice like he had had to make the correction before and was repeating himself, Meruem also saw something else. It was hidden deeper in Bardock's eyes, and Meruem said, "Your son?"
"Kakarott is my Saiyan name," Goku shouted over at his opponent.
Why does he not go by his Saiyan name normally? Does it have to do with why he is the only Saiyan who this world sees as a hero? Meruem pondered this while the boy on his mind moved.
Goku flew forward, but Bardock snapped, "I said to leave, Kakarott!"
"No," Goku responded. Bardock's eyes widened, and then a flash of bright light surrounded Goku's body that made both Bardock and the Ant King look his way.
Hundreds of miles away from Mount Vegeta and the surrounding mountain range and villages, on the Great Ocean only five miles off of Aebrith's west coast, a war was going on. The battle on the ocean had started before the planet started shaking and continued despite the rough waves below. The war was not huge, the amount of ships involved was limited to five, and one of those was already sinking into the sea. Another ship, the biggest of the remaining four, was surrounded in green vines that were whipping around and smacking into soldiers shooting and slashing at a crazy-fast, tall, flowery Neo-Marine named Binz.
The Devil Fruit eater slid down one of his vines then leapt off it to another as the blonde woman he was going after sniped his vine and it ripped in half. "Ooo-yaaayayaya!" Binz pulled out a dozen shuriken and threw them down at the woman who did a backflip to avoid them. As she flipped back though, a vine shot through the roof of her cabin and smacked her down into the ground.
She hit hard and let out a yelp of pain. Binz dropped down in front of her and twenty vines a hundred feet tall broke from the deck behind him and waved around in the air. "This is all the Pirate Queen can do?! Haha! No matter! This will regain the glory of the Neo-Marines! Z-sensei! Watch as I honor your name, ooohh hyaa!" He charged at Elizabeth Turner who rose up a sword in one hand and whipped out a ray pistol in the other.
She fired but he yelled, "Soru!" The beam went to the left of his head and he was in front of Elizabeth before she had time to raise her sword. He unsheathed his sword and yelled out as he swung it down, but right before the blade connected with Elizabeth's left shoulder, the Pirate Queen vanished.
Binz eyes opened wide and he spun left and right looking for her. He checked his Haki and searched around all their remaining Neo Marines and the crews they were fighting for the woman. When he was spinning back to his left after looking right though, his eyes turned into saucers at the sight of a man standing right in front of him who he did not sense until that second. Binz leapt backwards while William Turner glared furiously at him, "What do you think you're doing, attacking my wife?"
"The Pirate Queen has a husband?!" Binz exclaimed, then calmed himself down and thought fast. "Oii-yaa, how did you get there so fast?" The strange man wearing a pink outfit covered in bright green and purple flower designs stood in a fighting stance as he got the feeling this was the most dangerous man on all four of the ships.
Ain looked to her right and saw Binz nervously facing off against a totally calm man whose presence felt more monstrous than the monsters she was currently fighting on a ghost ship. She spun back as she felt a presence vanish and saw a fish-like man who had attributes of a hammerhead shark stabbing one of her men through the gut. "Stay in formation!" she yelled. "Soru!" She shot forward and that shark guy only made it halfway turned before her hand touched him and she yelled, "Modo Modo!" The shark man gasped and stumbled backwards as barnacles vanished from his skin that turned less decomposed and more, human.
Will Turner turned as he felt a strange sensation in his gut of one of his men escaping from their contracts that bound them to the Flying Dutchman. His former pirate dropped his sword and looked at his human hands in shock, then as his mouth curled up into a happy expression, a pistol went off and the man's head snapped back with blood coming out of it.
"He's actually dead!" One of Ain's men yelled. He was standing in a square of his comrades with his beam rifle raised and all of the Neo Marines became excited. "Ain-sama's power makes them mortal!"
"We can defeat the Pirate Queen!"
"We can sink the Flying Dutchman!"
"Raaa!" The Neo Marines scattered on their own remaining ship and all over Elizabeth's and Will's cheered.
The fourth ship in the battle was relatively empty compared to the others. A small crew of ten stood on the starboard side of it and watched as dead men and Marines and the Pirate Queen's crew all fought each other with advanced guns, melee weapons, and even their own fists, or claws and teeth for the monsters. The captain of this fourth ship turned his head to a pudgy man next to him. "Mr. Gibbs," the pirate captain began. He was wearing a captain's hat, a red bandanna underneath, and had long dreadlocks beneath that.
The pudgy man next to him turned to his Captain who had on a lot of expensive rings and necklaces unlike the rest of his raggedy-looking crew. Mr. Gibbs had on a gray vest over a white shirt, both covered in dirt. He answered, "Aye Captain?"
"I do believe we are being ignored," the man with long dreads said. Captain Jack Sparrow turned right and looked down the line at the nine pirates with him. "Is the Black Pearl a ship to be ignored?"
"No Cap'n!"
"We deserve to be boarded too!"
"Aye Cap'n!"
"Mr. Gibbs!"
"Aye Cap'n?!" Joshamee Gibbs shouted.
"Shoot someone!" Jack ordered.
Gibbs's mouth curled into a grin. "Aye Captain." He pulled out a pistol, pointed it towards the Flying Dutchman, aimed closely, then fired. BANG!
One of the Flying Dutchman's immortal crewmates stumbled forward. The saw-shark pirate turned and glared over at the Black Pearl's deck.
Jack and everyone on his ship turned to Gibbs who lowered his pistol and gave the scary monster a small, nervous wave. "Mr. Gibbs," Jack started.
"Aye Cap'n?"
"I meant one of the Marines," Jack said.
"Aye," Gibbs muttered.
"Shooting a monster that can't die and that's constantly sailing with us may have been a bad idea," a dark-skinned woman down the line from Jack and Gibbs stated. "I'd watch your back for now on."
"Watch your back! Watch your back!" A green parrot sitting on one of the other pirate's shoulders repeated a few times.
"Actually, I don't think that will be necessary," the captain said. The others all looked at Jack confusedly, then followed his gaze to the Flying Dutchman where the sawfish guy was falling forward with two swords sticking through his front and his skin turning black as he became more human.
Over on the Pirate Queen's ship, Binz saw Will Turner snap his head back towards his own ship, and he took that moment to attack. Binz swung his arms forward and twenty long vines shot towards the captain of the Flying Dutchman. Thorns came out of them and Binz grinned victoriously as he thought he won.
One of the Neo-Marines got slashed on his left shoulder closer to the stern on Elizabeth's ship than Binz. She stumbled to the port side and put her hands down on the railing to steady herself. The woman's left arm drenched with blood and she coughed as she stared down at the choppy water. As she looked at the sea, the urge to turn and get back to the battle left her completely. "Oh God," the woman whispered.
Binz's vines were about to hit Will Turner, when the Captain turned and glared at the Neo Marine with the cold eyes of a dead man. "Get off my ship," Will said.
All of a sudden, two pink tentacles twenty feet wide each shot out of the water on both sides of the Pirate Queen's ship. Binz's vines froze as fear took over, then the tip of one of those monster's tentacles shot down and wrapped around him. It pulled up and Binz used his powers to send his vines flying up after him to try and free himself from the pink monster. The beast threw him high in the air and his vines flew even higher so he could flip around and land on one. As he landed though, another tentacle slammed into all his vines and ripped them apart, making him lose balance in midair.
Binz fell and he rose up a hand to grab a weapon, but before he got anything in his hand, his entire vision filled with pink suction cups. "Ahh-" the tentacle slammed into him and he went flying. The Marine hit the water a quarter mile away, bounced, bounced, and bounced again.
Ain was going around the Flying Dutchman taking out monster after monster with her powers, aging these doomed men back to a time where they were not cursed so that they could die. Some of them she could swear ran straight towards her without trying to kill her, in hopes that maybe this woman could kill them. Ain stopped though and spun her head as the presence of her closest friend and comrade went flying. "Binz!"
Her men were all screaming in horror as the Kraken's tentacles whipped around, smacking them off the ships, grabbing them and pulling them down into the sea. She spun around and knew she was the only one still fighting. She could no longer see any chance for victory. "Everyone!" Ain yelled out. "Get-"
BANG!
Ain stopped shouting and she brought her hands up to her stomach. She looked down and moved her hands aside a little, and she looked down to see them soaked in red. The short woman lifted her head up and looked across the deck over at the ship they barely even took into account before attacking. Standing on the deck with one foot up on the railing and a pistol pointed her way, was none other than Captain Jack Sparrow.
The captain with long black dreads lowered his pistol, "And that, Mr. Gibbs, is what I meant."
"Fantastic shot Captain," Mr. Gibbs congratulated.
"Ain-samaaAAHHHH!" A man originally yelling at her in worry starting screaming in terror as a tentacle that just shot up over the side of the Pirate Queen's ship grabbed him around the waist. Ain turned her head and watched as her men got torn apart by monsters in every direction. She tried stepping towards them, but fell down to a knee, coughed, and blood splattered out of her mouth. Ain collapsed forward and only got her left elbow down to stop her face from hitting the wooden deck.
"I pity you," a female voice said above her. Ain slowly lifted her gaze and saw a woman with long blonde hair and a black pirate's hat standing above her. There were five scary fish monsters behind her, and the Kraken's tentacles waved Ain's men in the air on the sides of the ship above them all. Elizabeth Turner lifted up her ray pistol, and she reloaded a fresh magazine of ray bullets into it. It clicked to show the magazine was locked, and Ain raised a hand up at the beautiful Pirate Queen, shaking her head 'no.'
Elizabeth frowned but she lowered the pistol so the end of the barrel pressed against Ain's head. "A clean death, worthy of a fighter of your caliber. You die with honor, Neo-Marine." Elizabeth pulled the trigger. The pirate watched the smaller woman collapse, and did not flinch as she thought, But inside my ship my son is hiding. None who attack us can be allowed to live.
Son Goku's body suddenly grew three times in size. His muscles bulked, his legs and arms extended, and his shoulders broadened. Bardock gawked at his son, wondering if he could have done that at any time. Meruem looked confused though, because Goku lifted his own hands and gazed down at them in surprise. The Saiyan kept his injuries through his process of aging forward, but he also felt something else as he became a man again. Goku clenched his fists, he lifted his gaze, and his golden tail waved around behind him. "This is my fight," Goku said, looking Meruem straight in the eyes while his golden spiky hair waved above him in its single spike.
The older man whose hair was in the same style on Goku's left shook off his surprise at Goku's sudden aging. "You will only get in my way. Besides, this is a fight between Meruem's armies and my own. It's none of your business."
"It's not just between Saiyans and those attacking," Goku argued back, neither man looking away from Meruem as they spoke to each other. "You protect all the people in the towns and cities around these mountains."
"You don't know what you're talking about," Bardock said. His expression darkened, and he continued, "I only let them live there so that the Saiyans have people to lord over, to look down on as their lower subjects. I made it, so that if an attack ever came, there would be enough fodder in the way that I would have good warning before the enemies ever arrived at Mount Vegeta." Bardock's dark expression started to smirk towards Meruem who Bardock caught a change in his expression after that last statement. "After today's events, I believe I was right."
Goku frowned angrily, and in his chest he felt a sharp pain. Bardock continued, "You have the wrong opinion of me boy. We are different in every way. I am nothing like you." Bardock said it, and this time it was Meruem's turn to see something strange in the Saiyan King's dark expression. Kakarott, you are the hero of the Saiyan race. To hear that from me, you must be disappointed. Now leave, get out of-
"When I was on my way here," Goku began. His fists clenched and rose up into a fighting stance. "I thought I was going to have to fight the Saiyan King because he was evil," Goku said. Meruem looked at the tall Saiyan man who after aging he was now sure beyond a shred of a doubt that this was Son Goku. "Most of the Saiyans I knew were," Goku continued, then he grinned and added, "but you changed the Saiyans. The Saiyans here aren't bad guys. I know, I fight bad guys all the time." Goku smiled even wider and said, "Instead of facing the Saiyan King to save people, I got to meet and fight my father. I got to train with him, and though it did not last, for the first time in my life I was surrounded by Saiyans and truly felt at home." Bardock's eyes were huge at the words the younger man next to him was saying.
Goku's determined expression hardened and his aura flared around his body. "So I won't leave," Goku said, ignoring the injuries all over his body and the huge gap in strength between him and the other two. Goku's eyes narrowed in and he finished in a shout, "Because these are my people too, because my dad is the Saiyan King!"
A/N Hope you enjoyed! Thanks for reading. Lots of stuff happens this time. We get a flashback where Meruem sees Super Saiyan 3 Goku fight Luthor thanks to magic of Zeref's subordinates and the news brought back by Ichimaru Gin. Goku manages to go Super Saiyan 3 against Meruem in order to protect Dash, but it isn't enough to defeat the monstrous Ant King. Bardock arrives to save his son but his surprise attack fails to kill Meruem, and he claims Tora is fighting the Royal Guards, but is he? Or is Sora on his own against those monsters who are hunting him down? The Neo Marines are taken down by the Pirate Queen and her allies, Elizabeth putting Ain down herself and bringing Goku back to his proper age. Now, can Bardock defeat Meruem? Will Goku be able to assist his father and save his people? The war on the Saiyan Mountains is raging, and no one knows how it is going to turn out! Here's a list below for all the characters I introduced (that are not mine, like none that I use are):
DBZ: Jeice, Burter, Dodoria, Frieza, Angila, Wings, and Medamatcha (those three are the minions from the Lord Slug movie), Lord Slug, Fasha, Shugesh, Tora, Bardock, Goku (Kakarott), Raditz, Vegeta, Hit, Turles, Dyspo, Kunshi, Ginyu
Asura's Wrath: Deus, Olga, Gohma, Sergei
RWBY: Grimm
God Eater: Aragami, Zygotes, Aether, Chi-You, Leviathan (nickname I gave to the giant Aragami seen in episode 3 of the show and never again after that)
Kingdom Hearts: Organization, Sora, Heartless
Hunter x Hunter: Meruem, Pitou, Pouf, Isaac Netero, Gon Freecs
Futurama: Amy Wong
Arrow: John Diggle (Spartan)
Flash: Savitar
Fairy Tail: Zeref, August, Eileen
Bleach: Aizen, Tousen, Gin Ichimaru
DC Comics: Lex Luthor
Incredibles: Dash, JackJack
Pokemon: Azalea Town
-That was a lot, don't know if it's all of them though. If I missed some, you can ask where they're from in a comment, but either way, I don't own any of the characters. Anyway, review responses:
Limit-Breaking chapter 83 . Jan 17
Prepare yourself for the longest review ever.
Man you really like to toy with people and give them hope, i honestly believed that tien was alive some how for a second there or maybe he is. Though im probably giving myself false hope but pitou did say she was keeping him alive in a way by having control of his organs still functioning so maybe he is still alive and was just not conscience. Also goku only cut the strings controlling him but i still have hope. (Nicely done with that part)
But really man you just loving killing characters off all i saw was death everywhere. Also you definetly surprised me with turles showing up and the way bardock gave his speech about how he wish the saiyans were more like goku was really well done. I was just laughing when bardock said you make me want to blow up planets again for shits and giggles. XD
Now for the slightly serious stuff (HIT, DYSPO) WHEN, WHERE, AND HOW. YOU ARE NOT MAKING US WAIT A MILLION CHAPTERS TO HEAR HOW THEY ARRIVED ONTO THIS PLANET, I WANT THE FULL DETAILS. OR GOD HELP ME I WILL SPAM LIKE NO TOMMORROW WITH NEW CREATED ACCOUNTS AND SENEDING PM MESSAGES ASKING HOW THEY ARE HERE...
Ok the hype overload capacity has returned to normal levels and don't worry I won't really be spamming you... I SHOULD... But I won't cause you give us an awesome chapters each and everytime and i know this is just how you are so im kinda use to it.
But that does make me wonder why nobody hired hit to just assininate the ant king, maybe they don't know how deadly he really is. Just one hit and there we go no ant king, really people it's a simple as that.
Also it was so sad seeing jackjack die and dash is ready to avenge his brother, This will definetly build up his character latter down the line. And the way meruem decided to eat jackjack surprised me since orignially he said that those who have potential would be aloud to live but i guess he really wanted jackjack power. Though he said that from the show not in this story.
LASTLY THE MOST SERIOUS QUESTION OF ALL TIME WHERE, IS, JIREN. I know he is in this story and the thought of him showing up is just horrifying the dude is to OP.
But besides all that, Awesome job with this chapter and the way you portryed bardock to the saiyans was awesome it makes me hope we get to see this kind of thing in the new dragon all movie coming this year. I look forward to the fight between dash, goku and the ant king.
Keep up the amazing
What a review! Almost didn't copy and paste it all cuz it was going to increase the word count for this chapter so much, but I didn't want to hop back and forth between tabs anyway soo... Alright, thanks for the review! Haven't heard more about Tien since his strings were cut, but we'll see how that ends up. This chapter was called "War" because like the last chapter, a lot of the chapter is going around showing how large this war is spreading, and it's killing off a lot of people! Kunshi drops this time, as does John Diggle from Arrow and Amy Wong from Futurama, (and countless unnamed people in all those destroyed cities and towns). We may have also seen what crashes Zoro's ship in the far distance as Deus brings down lightning everywhere. Glad you liked Bardock's speech to Goku about the Saiyans, but it doesn't seem like Goku agrees with Bardock's calling himself not as good a Saiyan. I do have a flashback with Hit in it planned in the future, but now that Shugesh and Fasha have arrived to save Dyspo (not that that's really their intention), maybe he'll be getting one too. As for no one hiring Hit, in his universe he had been around for a long time so everyone probably knew about him, or heard rumors at least. In this one, I can't really see Hit going around advertising himself, so it might take a little longer for people to realize how powerful he is, though it seems like Turles for one understands his strength. Meruem allowing those who have potential to live made sense on his world where he felt like he was stronger than everyone, but on this one he has seen that he is not the strongest there is, so I think he would be more concerned about first becoming the King before deciding on what to do with all the others. Then again, lots about the Ant King is unknown and yet to be revealed, so there could be other reasons too... ;) . And for the final question, Jiren. I normally like to add characters only once I know a lot about them to work off of, hence why I added Dyspo right after he was eliminated from the tournament so that I knew his max power. That's a big reason I don't want to add Jiren right now, because I might downplay, or overestimate, his overall strength. On top of that, I already have/had most of Aebrith Saga worked out in my head and on a notes page on my computer before Jiren was introduced. For such an important/strong character, it'll be tough to just find a spot to throw him in, but I'm sure sooner or later I'll find a good place. Fwew, alright so I matched the longest review with the longest response. Once again thanks for reviewing, and I hope you enjoyed the latest chapter!
kg833998 chapter 57 . Jan 17
did you have to kill koro sensei please tell me bitch sensei and Kayano I still alive besides that your last chapter was amazing I had to stop reading for a second cuz I had to cry my eyes out after hearing you killed koro sensei
also since Mario is at this does that mean Sonic and hopefully Shadow are going to be in this and does that mean the chaos emeralds play some part in story also one last thing is a certain time traveling demon and her creation going to be in this you don't remember going to tell you about then I'll give you a hint Xenoverse thank you I want to ask you something else but I'll ask you in the next chapter
I I have a feeling I know what you're planning for Goku you're probably going to do a GT did cuz he's a kid and he has his tail a few into the store you kept mentioning he has his tail you think you're sneaky but I know you're going to do it what happened with baby is going to happen here Super Saiyan 4 I or something close to tell me if I'm closing up please
Koro sensei noo! Sorry if he was your favorite, but we will see him later on (in a flashback at least). As for the two teachers, there was no mention of them dying... so who knows? XD As for Sonic and the others, I have played around with the idea of adding them for a while. Back in first Saga of Nexus I thought about it too, and I haven't found a good spot for them- yet. Not going to say they aren't coming, but no plans at the moment. Also, I have not played Xenoverse, so most of what you said there at the end went over my head. I've seen a few cutscenes from the games, but I never watched them all and didn't use them as canon, (since I heard Bardock was in it a lot and I changed his background a whole bunch). Goku ages up again but still has his tail, no spoilers on what's going to happen t him from there though... Anyway, hope you enjoyed the chapter, thanks for the reviews, and let me know what that other question was!
asdf chapter 83 . Jan 17
I think Hit is most likely going to defeat Bardock considering what he did to SSJ Blue Vegeta. When you made mention of Dyspo, I thought any moment Jiren was gonna appear. Then there would be too many op bald characters: Luthor, Jiren, Saitama.
It seems I have forgotten one other overpowered bald man. That bald man being Toppo... a newly born God Of Destruction as shown by the latest episode of Dragon Ball Super.
*Takes deep breaths to calm heart from the influx of hype*
If Jiren and/or Toppo appear in this story, it will be too much for my poor heart.
Turles has other plans for Hit as we see early on in this chapter, saving him for his trump card for later. Toppo, Jiren, Luthor, Saitama, so many bald people just happen to be strong too (not to mention Meruem and Hit are both bald too) XD. Getting excited for this Toppo fight next weekend too (more so than the Super Bowl)! Hope you enjoyed the chapter, and thanks for the reviews!
Guest chapter 83 . Jan 18
WOW MY HEART WAS BEATING FAST, NEW CHARACTERS, will some died :(, BUT WOW SO AWESOME:), CANT WAIT TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
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GLAD YOU'RE EXCITED! THANKS FOR REVIEWING! XD Hope you enjoyed the new chapter and that it's keeping you in suspense!
Zalgatoth chapter 83 . Jan 18
Holy crap you brought in hellsing. (Hellsing spoilers)I can only imagine the potentially massive amount of power alucard has gathered by now. What's worse is his ability to use others lives as a shield is universal. No matter that power level people attack him he can take millions of hits. Not to mention if your including him after schrodinger. Of course this is only speculation. You could have had him brought in right after anderson and die off or still stuck in imaginary number coma. But at any other point he can easily survive and mooch off the blood of millions who have died with or without powers. Unless one of the incredible amount of stories in your head has curve ball which can be thrown.(which I'm sure it does)
P.S. I want to apologize for not reviewing before. I kinda worked up an anxiety about writing a review and accidently offending someone. You're one of my favourite writers and the sheer quality, creativity, and skill that goes into your writing astounds me. Not to mention the sheer amount you write in such short spans of time. I want to thank your for writing and introducing me to some of my favourite series. I look forward to the future. :)
Valentine brothers show up as Capital 50 for the first Hellsing appearance! (I didn't even realize it was the first until you mentioned it XD ). Haven't seen Alucard yet, but who knows when/if he's going to show up... ;). I am really glad you finally reviewed, and thanks a lot! I'm happy you think my work is really good, makes the millions of words of this really feel worth it. Haha, seriously though, hope you review again, and I hope you enjoyed the chapter! Thanks for reviewing!
joebob323 chapter 83 . Jan 19
Hmm, I'm almost expecting Goku to pull a DBS and go Ultra Instinct on Meruem... I mean, you did introduce the Trio de Dangers and Hit, so it wouldn't be too far off. Great story, except i'm a little concerned about the death of JackJack, Does this mean Meruem gets much stronger?
Lots of DBS showing up this chapter. Dragon Ball took up the mantle as the main series crossing over this chapter, (Hell, I even changed the story settings from Kingdom Hearts and X-overs, to DBZ and X-overs). Goku doesn't make it up that strong, but he's saved this time by his father just in time. Who knows, maybe Goku will get it next chapter... or maybe not. XD We'll see how he handles this situation next chapter. Meruem eating JackJack got interrupted at the start, so he may not have gotten the power-up from it yet (considering he first flew off from Dash while still holding JackJack to eat later, and only dropped him when Dash and Goku attacked at the same time). He could always go back for that snack later though! Thanks again for reviewing joebob! Been years since you started reading Nexus and I'm glad you still are! Thanks to everyone who reviewed too, and those of you who faved, followed, or just read this story! Well, as always, 'til next time!